Ontology-driven geographic information integration: A survey of current approaches

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 710-723

  Buccella, Agustina ^a   Cechich, Alejandra ^a   Fillottrani, Pablo ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL COMAHUE   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DEL SUR   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Data integration; Formal ontologies; Geographic Information Systems; Heterogeneous databases

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION THEORY; ONTOLOGY;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; DATA INTEGRATION; FORMAL ONTOLOGIES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATIONS; GEOSPATIAL INFORMATIONS; HETEROGENEOUS DATABASES; INFORMATION SOURCES; INTEGRATION PROCESS; RESEARCH AREAS;

INTEGRATION;

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; GIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 62849086791     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.02.033     Document Type: Article

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