Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web Foundations, Algorithms, and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ashish, Naveen (Editor), Sheth, Amit P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Series: Semantic Web and Beyond, Computing for Human Experience, 12
• Subjects: Computer science.; Earth sciences.; Database management.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Artificial intelligence.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Earth Sciences, general.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Database Management.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

The availability of geographic and geospatial information and services, especially on the open Web has become abundant in the last several years with the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial Web services and geospatially enabled applications. The need for geospatial reasonin...

Table of Contents:

• Representing and Utilizing Changing Historical Places as an Ontology Time Series
• Semantic Referencing of Geosensor Data and Volunteered Geographic Information
• SPARQL-ST: Extending SPARQL to Support Spatiotemporal Queries
• Spatial Cyberinfrastructure: Building new pathways for geospatial semantics on existing infrastructures
• Ontology-Based Geospatial Approaches for Semantic Awareness in Earth Observation Systems
• Location-Based Access Control Using Semantic Web Technologies
• Topographic Mapping Data Semantics Through Data Conversion and Enhancement.