Abstract. Narrative descriptions about populated places are very common in ethnographies. In old articles and books on the migration history of Taiwan aborigines, for example, narr...
With the specifications defined through the Sensor Web Enablement initiative of the Open Geospatial Consortium, flexible integration of sensor data is becoming a reality. Challe...
Abstract. Often the information present in a spatial knowledge base is represented at a different level of granularity and abstraction than the query constraints. For querying onto...
Prateek Jain, Peter Z. Yeh, Kunal Verma, Cory A. H...
As directories of named places, gazetteers link the names to geographic footprints and place types. Most existing gazetteers are managed strictly top-down: entries can only be adde...
An ontology of observation and measurement is proposed, which models the relevant information processes independently of sensor technology. It is kept at a sufficiently general lev...
What is the intended interpretation of a geospatial database in terms of reproducible experiences? How should places on a digital globe be interpreted on the earth surface? And how...
Abstract. The realization of Semantic Web reasoning is central to substantiating the Semantic Web vision. However, current mainstream research on this topic faces serious challenge...