Combining ontologies to automatically generate temporal perspectives of geospatial domains

GeoInformatica

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 481-505

  Hornsby, Kathleen Stewart ^a   Joshi, Kripa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b ESRI   (United States)

Author keywords

Geospatial ontology; Multi granular modeling; Spatiotemporal data modeling; Temporal ontology

Indexed keywords

CROSS PRODUCT; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOSPATIAL ONTOLOGIES; GRANULAR MODELING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL DATA MODELING; TEMPORAL GRANULARITY;

VISUALIZATION;

ONTOLOGY;

GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 77954031473     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-009-0088-1     Document Type: Article

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