期刊名称：EARTH SCIENCE INFORMATICS
 期刊简介(About the journal)
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编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
TheEarthScienceInformatics[ESIN]journalaimsatrapidpublicationof high-quality, current, cutting-edge, and provocative scientific work in the area of Earth Science Informatics as it relates to Earth systems science and space science. This includes articles on the application of formal and computational methods, computational Earth science, spatial and temporal analyses, and all aspects of computer applications to the acquisition, storage, processing, interchange, and visualization of data and information about the materials, properties, processes, features, and phenomena that occur at all scales and locations in the Earth system’s five components (atmosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, biosphere, cryosphere) and in space (see "About this journal" for more detail). The quarterly journal publishes research, methodology, and software articles, as well as editorials, comments, and book and software reviews. Review articles of relevant findings, topics, and methodologies are also considered.
Research, Technology and Education Objectives
The Earth Science Informatics will help to develop and shape the new field of Earth Science Informatics. It is intended to provide a dissemination platform for research using systems-based approaches to solve multi-scale Earth science problems by encouraging the development of robust formal and computational models and information systems. Since Earth Science Informatics is a new field just now emerging there is little precedence how to formally educate traditional domain knowledge-oriented scientists and engineers to become informaticists, and also how to effectively integrate cyberinfrastructure into Earth science education. The Earth Science Informatics journal will act as a venue to share experiences and concepts for educational approaches to accomplish the training of the next generation of Earth science informaticists as well as bringing cyberinfrastructure into the scholarly and graduate-level education.
Rationale for the Journal
Earth Science Informatics is a rapidly developing, interdisciplinary field with the potential to have a significant impact on the advancement of Earth system science by deriving new knowledge about the Earth system through formal information-rich and semantic-based approaches. Analysis and understanding of complex Earth phenomena and processes necessitate the integration of field, experimental, theoretical, and computation research through informatics.
Acceptable Types of Manuscript
Manuscripts that can be submitted to Earth Science Informatics may fall under any of the following categories: research article, methodology article (experimental, computational, simulation, theoretical), software article (e.g., ontology, database, markup language), and review article. The journal also publishes solicited and unsolicited Editorials and Comments on topics of interest to the journal’s audience. Contributors must identify the type of their article during submission.
Research articles report findings of original research, and may be divided into the following sections (authors are free to use alternative structure): Title and Abstract page, Introduction, Methods (with subsections), Results (with subsections), Discussion (with subsections), Conclusions, List of abbreviations (if any), Acknowledgements, References, Figures and captions (if any), and Tables and caption (if any). Each of these sections is described in detail in the Format and Structure of the Manuscript section.
Methodology articles present technical details of a new or revised experimental, computational, theoretical, or simulation approach, method, test, analysis, model, or procedure. The Method section of the Methodology articles should contain enough detail, in proper subsections, to allow other scientists to reproduce the method, and apply it to their own research. For example, the Method section of a computational type of methodology article may be divided into the ‘Algorithm’, ‘Testing’, and ‘Implementation’ subsections. A theoretical Methodology article presenting a new theory should have a subsection on the comparison of existing and new theories.
Software articles report an application or a tool that should become freely available to researchers for their personal (non-commercial) use. To make this possible, a software article must have a section called ‘Software Files’ that follows the ‘Tables and caption’ section. The software articles should have a ‘Design and Implementation’ section between the Introduction and Results sections, an ‘Availability and Requirements’ section after the Conclusion section which should list the URL, where the software files are available on the Web, and a operating system and hardware requirements section.
Solicited or unsolicited Review articles are compendiums of the current status of an area of interest to the journal, and give critical evaluations of published work on the subject. They should accurately present the state-of-the-art knowledge about the subject in a coherent, concise, and organized way. Review articles are reviewed by the Editorial Board members.
Special Issues of the journal are either solicited by the Editors of the journal or, more commonly, suggested by researchers who intend to produce a Special Issue on a timely, specific topic of interest, within the scope of the journal, as Guest Editors. The Guest Editors manage the solicitation/acquisition and review of the papers for the Special Issue.
Editorials are solicited by the Editor-in-Chief or Deputy Editor to accompany a published article or a Special Issue of the journal. Editorials also may be submitted by uninvited researchers.
Comments, written by a reader in the form of a letter or essay of 1000 or less words, may cover timely topics of interest or controversy to the journal’s audience. The comment may also support, criticize, question, expound, or correct a part of a recently published article in the journal, and/or provide an alternate interpretation or perspective for it. The Editor-in-Chief or the Deputy Editor will send the comments to the corresponding author of the published paper and ask for a response. The comments and the response (if any) will be published together in a later issue of the journal.
Errata are submitted by the authors of a previously published article to correct a significant error, introduced inadvertently. The authors should send the corrections to the Editor as soon as the error is discovered. The corrections must be well documented (e.g., with article title, volume number, page and line number), and will be published in a later issue of the journal.
The Feature Editor handles other types of short communications in the journal. These include Events (e.g., meeting and conference announcements), Book Review, Software Review, and Errata. Book and Software reviews can also be contributed by the journal audience.
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Instructions to Authors
Submission of a manuscript implies: that the work described has not been published before; that it is not under consideration for publication anywhere else; that its publication has been approved by all co-authors, if any, as well as by the responsible authorities – tacitly or explicitly – at the institute where the work has been carried out. The publisher will not be held legally responsible should there be any claims for compensation.
Permissions
Authors wishing to include figures, tables, or text passages that have already been published elsewhere are required to obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format and to include evidence that such permission has been granted when submitting their papers. Any material received without such evidence will be assumed to originate from the authors.
Online Submission
Authors should submit their manuscripts online. Electronic submission substantially reduces the editorial processing and reviewing times and shortens overall publication times. Please follow the hyperlink “Submit online” on the right and upload all of your manuscript files following the instructions given on the screen.
Title Page
The title page should include:
The name(s) of the author(s)
A concise and informative title
The affiliation(s) and address(es) of the author(s)
The e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers of the corresponding author
Abstract
Please provide an abstract of 150 to 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references.
Keywords
Please provide 4 to 6 keywords which can be used for indexing purposes.
Text
Text Formatting
Manuscripts should be submitted in Word.
Use a normal, plain font (e.g., 10-point Times Roman) for text.
Use italics for emphasis.
Use the automatic page numbering function to number the pages.
Do not use field functions.
Use tab stops or other commands for indents, not the space bar.
Use the table function, not spreadsheets, to make tables.
Use the equation editor or MathType for equations.
Note: If you use Word 2007, do not create the equations with the default equation editor but use the Microsoft equation editor or MathType instead.
Save your file in doc format. Do not submit docx files.
Word template (zip, 154 kB)
Manuscripts with mathematical content can also be submitted in LaTeX.
LaTeX macro package (zip, 182 kB)
Headings
Please use no more than three levels of displayed headings.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations should be defined at first mention and used consistently thereafter.
Footnotes
Footnotes can be used to give additional information, which may include the citation of a reference included in the reference list. They should not consist solely of a reference citation, and they should never include the bibliographic details of a reference. They should also not contain any figures or tables.
Footnotes to the text are numbered consecutively; those to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data). Footnotes to the title or the authors of the article are not given reference symbols.
Always use footnotes instead of endnotes.
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments of people, grants, funds, etc. should be placed in a separate section before the reference list. The names of funding organizations should be written in full.
Scientific style
Please always use internationally accepted signs and symbols for units (SI units).
Nomenclature: Insofar as possible, authors should use systematic names similar to those used by Chemical Abstract Service or IUPAC.
Genus and species names should be in italics.
Generic names of drugs and pesticides are preferred; if trade names are used, the generic name should be given at first mention.
Please use the standard mathematical notation for formulae, symbols, etc.:
Italic for single letters that denote mathematical constants, variables, and unknown quantities
Roman/upright for numerals, operators, and punctuation, and commonly defined functions or abbreviations, e.g., cos, det, e or exp, lim, log, max, min, sin, tan, d (for derivative)
Bold for vectors, tensors, and matrices.
References
Citation
Cite references in the text by name and year in parentheses. Some examples:
Negotiation research spans many disciplines (Thompson 1990).
This result was later contradicted by Becker and Seligman (1996).
This effect has been widely studied (Abbott 1991; Barakat et al. 1995; Kelso and Smith 1998; Medvec et al. 1993).
Reference list
The list of references should only include works that are cited in the text and that have been published or accepted for publication. Personal communications and unpublished works should only be mentioned in the text. Do not use footnotes or endnotes as a substitute for a reference list.
Reference list entries should be alphabetized by the last names of the first author of each work.
Journal article
Gamelin FX, Baquet G, Berthoin S, Thevenet D, Nourry C, Nottin S, Bosquet L (2009) Effect of high intensity intermittent training on heart rate variability in prepubescent children. Eur J Appl Physiol 105:731-738. doi: 10.1007/s00421-008-0955-8
Ideally, the names of all authors should be provided, but the usage of “et al” in long author lists will also be accepted:
Smith J, Jones M Jr, Houghton L et al (1999) Future of health insurance. N Engl J Med 965:325–329
Article by DOI
Slifka MK, Whitton JL (2000) Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. J Mol Med. doi:10.1007/s001090000086
Book
South J, Blass B (2001) The future of modern genomics. Blackwell, London
Book chapter
Brown B, Aaron M (2001) The politics of nature. In: Smith J (ed) The rise of modern genomics, 3rd edn. Wiley, New York, pp 230-257
Online document
Cartwright J (2007) Big stars have weather too. IOP Publishing PhysicsWeb. http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/11/6/16/1. Accessed 26 June 2007
Dissertation
Trent JW (1975) Experimental acute renal failure. Dissertation, University of California
Always use the standard abbreviation of a journal’s name according to the ISSN List of Title Word Abbreviations, see
www.issn.org/2-22661-LTWA-online.php
For authors using EndNote, Springer provides an output style that supports the formatting of in-text citations and reference list.
EndNote style (zip, 3 kB)
Tables
All tables are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
Tables should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
For each table, please supply a table caption (title) explaining the components of the table.
Identify any previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference at the end of the table caption.
Footnotes to tables should be indicated by superscript lower-case letters (or asterisks for significance values and other statistical data) and included beneath the table body.
Artwork
For the best quality final product, it is highly recommended that you submit all of your artwork – photographs, line drawings, etc. – in an electronic format. Your art will then be produced to the highest standards with the greatest accuracy to detail. The published work will directly reflect the quality of the artwork provided.
Electronic Figure Submission
Supply all figures electronically.
Indicate what graphics program was used to create the artwork.
For vector graphics, the preferred format is EPS; for halftones, please use TIFF format. MS Office files are also acceptable.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Name your figure files with "Fig" and the figure number, e.g., Fig1.eps.
Line Art
Definition: Black and white graphic with no shading.
Do not use faint lines and/or lettering and check that all lines and lettering within the figures are legible at final size.
All lines should be at least 0.1 mm (0.3 pt) wide.
Scanned line drawings and line drawings in bitmap format should have a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi.
Vector graphics containing fonts must have the fonts embedded in the files.
Halftone Art
Definition: Photographs, drawings, or paintings with fine shading, etc.
If any magnification is used in the photographs, indicate this by using scale bars within the figures themselves.
Halftones should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.
Combination Art
Definition: a combination of halftone and line art, e.g., halftones containing line drawing, extensive lettering, color diagrams, etc.
Combination artwork should have a minimum resolution of 600 dpi.
Color Art
Color art is free of charge for online publication.
If black and white will be shown in the print version, make sure that the main information will still be visible. Many colors are not distinguishable from one another when converted to black and white. A simple way to check this is to make a xerographic copy to see if the necessary distinctions between the different colors are still apparent.
If the figures will be printed in black and white, do not refer to color in the captions.
Color illustrations should be submitted as RGB (8 bits per channel).
Figure Lettering
To add lettering, it is best to use Helvetica or Arial (sans serif fonts).
Keep lettering consistently sized throughout your final-sized artwork, usually about 2–3 mm (8–12 pt).
Variance of type size within an illustration should be minimal, e.g., do not use 8-pt type on an axis and 20-pt type for the axis label.
Avoid effects such as shading, outline letters, etc.
Do not include titles or captions within your illustrations.
Figure Numbering
All figures are to be numbered using Arabic numerals.
Figures should always be cited in text in consecutive numerical order.
Figure parts should be denoted by lowercase letters (a, b, c, etc.).
If an appendix appears in your article and it contains one or more figures, continue the consecutive numbering of the main text. Do not number the appendix figures, "A1, A2, A3, etc." Figures in online appendices (Electronic Supplementary Material) should, however, be numbered separately.
Figure Captions
Each figure should have a concise caption describing accurately what the figure depicts. Include the captions in the text file of the manuscript, not in the figure file.
Figure captions begin with the term Fig. in bold type, followed by the figure number, also in bold type.
No punctuation is to be included after the number, nor is any punctuation to be placed at the end of the caption.
Identify all elements found in the figure in the figure caption; and use boxes, circles, etc., as coordinate points in graphs.
Identify previously published material by giving the original source in the form of a reference citation at the end of the figure caption.
Figure Placement and Size
When preparing your figures, size figures to fit in the column width.
For most journals the figures should be 39 mm, 84 mm, 129 mm, or 174 mm wide and not higher than 234 mm.
For books and book-sized journals, the figures should be 80 mm or 122 mm wide and not higher than 198 mm.
Permissions
If you include figures that have already been published elsewhere, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner(s) for both the print and online format. Please be aware that some publishers do not grant electronic rights for free and that Springer will not be able to refund any costs that may have occurred to receive these permissions. In such cases, material from other sources should be used.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your figures, please make sure that
All figures have descriptive captions (blind users could then use a text-to-speech software or a text-to-Braille hardware)
Patterns are used instead of or in addition to colors for conveying information (color-blind users would then be able to distinguish the visual elements)
Any figure lettering has a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1
Electronic Supplementary Material
Springer accepts electronic multimedia files (animations, movies, audio, etc.) and other supplementary files to be published online along with an article or a book chapter. This feature can add dimension to the author's article, as certain information cannot be printed or is more convenient in electronic form.
Submission
Supply all supplementary material in standard file formats.
Please include in each file the following information: article title, journal name, author names; affiliation and e-mail address of the corresponding author.
To accommodate user downloads, please keep in mind that larger-sized files may require very long download times and that some users may experience other problems during downloading.
Audio, Video, and Animations
Always use MPEG-1 (.mpg) format.
Text and Presentations
Submit your material in PDF format; .doc or .ppt files are not suitable for long-term viability.
A collection of figures may also be combined in a PDF file.
Spreadsheets
Spreadsheets should be converted to PDF if no interaction with the data is intended.
If the readers should be encouraged to make their own calculations, spreadsheets should be submitted as .xls files (MS Excel).
Specialized Formats
Specialized format such as .pdb (chemical), .wrl (VRML), .nb (Mathematica notebook), and .tex can also be supplied.
Collecting Multiple Files
It is possible to collect multiple files in a .zip or .gz file.
Numbering
If supplying any supplementary material, the text must make specific mention of the material as a citation, similar to that of figures and tables.
Refer to the supplementary files as “Online Resource”, e.g., "... as shown in the animation (Online Resource 3)", “... additional data are given in Online Resource 4”.
Name the files consecutively, e.g. “ESM_3.mpg”, “ESM_4.pdf”.
Captions
For each supplementary material, please supply a concise caption describing the content of the file.
Processing of supplementary files
Electronic supplementary material will be published as received from the author without any conversion, editing, or reformatting.
Accessibility
In order to give people of all abilities and disabilities access to the content of your supplementary files, please make sure that
The manuscript contains a descriptive caption for each supplementary material
Video files do not contain anything that flashes more than three times per second (so that users prone to seizures caused by such effects are not put at risk)
After acceptance
Upon acceptance of your article you will receive a link to the special Author Query Application at Springer’s web page where you can sign the Copyright Transfer Statement online and indicate whether you wish to order OpenChoice and offprints.
Once the Author Query Application has been completed, your article will be processed and you will receive the proofs.
Open Choice
In addition to the normal publication process (whereby an article is submitted to the journal and access to that article is granted to customers who have purchased a subscription), Springer now provides an alternative publishing option: Springer Open Choice. A Springer Open Choice article receives all the benefits of a regular subscription-based article, but in addition is made available publicly through Springer’s online platform SpringerLink. We regret that Springer Open Choice cannot be ordered for published articles.
Springer Open Choice
Copyright transfer
Authors will be asked to transfer copyright of the article to the Publisher (or grant the Publisher exclusive publication and dissemination rights). This will ensure the widest possible protection and dissemination of information under copyright laws.
Open Choice articles do not require transfer of copyright as the copyright remains with the author. In opting for open access, they agree to the Springer Open Choice Licence.
Offprints
Offprints can be ordered by the corresponding author.
Color illustrations
Publication of color illustrations is free of charge.
Proof reading
The purpose of the proof is to check for typesetting or conversion errors and the completeness and accuracy of the text, tables and figures. Substantial changes in content, e.g., new results, corrected values, title and authorship, are not allowed without the approval of the Editor.
After online publication, further changes can only be made in the form of an Erratum, which will be hyperlinked to the article.
Online First
The article will be published online after receipt of the corrected proofs. This is the official first publication citable with the DOI. After release of the printed version, the paper can also be cited by issue and page numbers.
Editorial Board
Editor in Chief:
Hassan A. Babaie
Department of Geosciences
Georgia State University
33 Gilmer Street SE
P.O. Box 4105
Atlanta, GA 30302-4105
USA
tel: 404 413 5766 fax 404 413 5768
email: hbabaie@gsu.edu
Deputy Editor: Rahul Ramachandran - Information Technology and Systems Center, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.
Feature Editor: Rob Raskin - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology/NASA, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Associate Editors:
Thomas Bittner - Department of Philosophy and Geography, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Deborah L. McGuinness - Knowledge systems, Artificial Intelligence laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Michael Piasecki - Drexel University, Department of Civil & Architectural Engineering, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Rob Raskin - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology/NASA, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Jochen Renz - School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Editorial Board:
Amy Braverman - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA.
Gilberto Câmara - Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil.
Cinzia Cervato - CHRONOS - Dept. of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences, Iowa State Univ. Ames, IA, USA.
Ben Domenico - Unidata, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), Boulder, CO, USA.
Maureen Donnelly - Department of Philosophy, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Suzana Dragicevic - Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada.
Max J. Egenhofer - Department of Spatial Information Science and Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
Frederico Fonseca - College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University. University Park, PA, U.S.A.
Peter A. Fox - High Altitude Observatory/Earth and Sun Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Co, USA.
Antony P. Galton - Department of Computer Science, School of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK.
Marco A. Giorgetta - Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Bundesstr, Hamburg, Germany
Mark Jessell - Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transferts en Géologie, UMR 5563 UR 154 CNRS Université Paul-Sabatier IRD, Toulouse, France
Siri Jodha S. Khalsa - National Snow and Ice Data Center, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Jens Klump - GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, Telegrafenberg, Potsdam, Germany.
Vladik Kreinovich - Department of Computer Science, University of Texas, El Paso, Texas, USA.
Kerstin Lehnert - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, USA.
Michael Lutz - European Commission - DG Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability Spatial Data Infrastructures Unit, Ispra (VA), Italy.
Wataru Ohfuchi - Yokohama Institute for Earth Sciences, Earth Simulator Center Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Yokohama, Japan
Rahul Ramachandran - University of Alabama, Information Technology and Systems Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
René Redler - NEC Laboratories Europe - IT Research Division NEC Europe Ltd. Rathausallee, Germany
Allister Rees - Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA.
Chris Renschler - Department of Geography, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA
Stephen M. Richard - Arizona Geological Survey, Geoinformatics Section, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Dogan Seber - San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla CA, USA.
Krishna Sinha - Department of Geological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA.
Ferdinando Villa - Ecoinformatics Collaboratory, Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and Department of Plant Biology University of Vermont. Burlington VT, USA.
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