Ontological engineering for interpreting geospatial queries

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-130

  Peachavanish, Ratchata ^a   Karimi, Hassan A ^b  

^a THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Ontology; Query interpretation; Spatial queries

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MAPPING;

'CURRENT; GEO-SPATIAL; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; GEOPROCESSING; ONTOLOGICAL ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY'S; QUERY INTERPRETATION; SPATIAL QUERIES; SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE; SYSTEMS EXPERTS;

ONTOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA INTERPRETATION; GIS; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 33846187113     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2007.01036.x     Document Type: Article

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