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GEOS
2009
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning
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...
Chin-Lung Chang, Yi-Hong Chang, Tyng-Ruey Chuang, ...
IJAR
2010
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13 years 9 months ago
Envisioning uncertainty in geospatial information
Geospatial Reasoning has been an essential aspect of military planning since the invention of cartography. Although maps have always been a focal point for developing situational ...
Kathryn B. Laskey, Edward J. Wright, Paulo Cesar G...
ESWS
2008
Springer
14 years 20 days ago
SWING: An Integrated Environment for Geospatial Semantic Web Services
Geospatial Web services allow to access and to process Geospatial data. Despite significant standardisation efforts, severe heterogeneity and interoperability problems remain. The ...
Mihai Andrei, Arne-Jørgen Berre, Luis Costa...
DNIS
2007
Springer
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14 years 21 days ago
Location Privacy in Geospatial Decision-Making
Geospatial data-sets are becoming commonplace in many application domains, especially in the area of decision-making. Current state-of-the-art in geospatial systems either lack the...
Cyrus Shahabi, Ali Khoshgozaran
GIS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Annotating geospatial data based on its semantics
Geospatial information (GI) constitutes a significant portion of available data and are a key factor in planning and decision-making in a variety of domains,such as emergency man...
Carla Geovana N. Macário, Sidney Roberto de...
GISCIENCE
2004
Springer
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14 years 4 months ago
From Objects to Events: GEM, the Geospatial Event Model
This paper discusses the construction of a modeling approach for dynamic geospatial domains based on the concepts of object and event. The paper shows how such a model extends tra...
Michael F. Worboys, Kathleen Hornsby
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Media Watch on Climate Change: Building and Visualizing Contextualized Information Spaces
Abstract. This paper presents the ’Media Watch on Climate Change’, an interactive Web portal that combines a portfolio of semantic services with a visual interface based on tig...
Arno Scharl, Albert Weichselbraun, Alexander Hubma...
SEMWEB
2007
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Probabilistic Geospatial Ontologies
Partial knowledge about geospatial categories is critical for knowledge modelling in the geospatial domain but is beyond the scope of conventional ontologies. Degree of overlaps be...
Sumit Sen
ER
2007
Springer
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14 years 5 months ago
A Conceptual Framework to Support Semantic Interoperability of Geospatial Datacubes
Today, we observe a wide use of geospatial databases that are implemented in many forms (e.g. transactional centralized systems, distributed databases, multidimensional datacubes)....
Tarek Sboui, Yvan Bédard, Jean Brodeur, Thi...