Introduction
Understanding environment conditions and trends requires information; this information is usually generated from observations, experiments and simulations. A better management and usability of open environmental data is crucial, not only to retrieve large amounts of data, but also to cater the issues like data privacy and trust, uncertainties, quality control, interoperability, visualization, and management policies. This workshop will bring together communities dealing with open environmental data infrastructures (e.g. private and public sectors) to discuss relevant requirements, practices and experiences. These aspects will not only be addressed in terms of a technological perspective, but also in terms social and legal perspectives.

This workshop will cover the following topics in the context of environmental sensing:
• Interoperable data management infrastructures
• Sensor and Model Web, Semantic Sensor Web
• Linked Environmental Data
• Data quality and uncertainty assessment
• Provenance, privacy and trust of data
• Data analysis, query and visualization
• Legal and social frameworks for data access and sharing
• End-to-end open data flow management
• Open data/metadata standards, best practices
• Relevant tools and applications

Important Dates
Paper Submission: October 30, 2013
Authors Notification: November 15, 2013
Camera Ready and Registration: November 27, 2013

Paper Submission
Prospective authors are invited to submit papers in any of the topics listed above.
Instructions for preparing the manuscript (in Word and Latex formats) are available at: http://www.sensornets.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx#paper_templates
Please also check the Guidelines and Templates (http://www.sensornets.org/GuidelinesTemplates.aspx)
Papers should be submitted electronically via the web-based submission system at: http://www.insticc.org/Primoris
The preferred length of the workshop paper is 4-6 pages.

Publications
All accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings book, under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support.
All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/).
SCITEPRESS is member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/).

Workshop Chairs
Anusuriya Devaraju, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Email: a.devaraju@fz-juelich.de)
Ralf Kunkel, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (Email: r.kunkel@fz-juelich.de)
Simon Jirka, 52°North Sensor Web Community (Email: jirka@52north.org)

Workshop Program Committee
Dr. Arne Bröring, 52°North Initiative for Geospatial Open Source Software, Germany
Dr. Carsten Kessler, City University of New York, U.S.A.
Dr. Lorenzo Bigagli, CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research, Italy
Dr. Michael Compton, CSIRO Canberra, Australia
Dr. Steve Liang, University of Calgary, Canada
Dr. Sven Schade, European Environmental Agency, Denmark
Dr. Tomi Kauppinen, Aalto University, Finland
Dr. Wouter Dorigo, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Prof. Dr. Edzer Pebesma, University of Muenster, Germany
Prof. Dr. Krishnaprasad Thirunarayan, Wright State University, U.S.A.

Invited speakers
TBA.