Towards a standard for soil and terrain data exchange: SoTerML

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 45, Issue , 2012, Pages 270-283

  Pourabdollah, Amir ^a   Leibovici, Didier G ^a   Simms, Daniel M ^b   Tempel, Piet ^c   Hallett, Stephen H ^b   Jackson, Mike J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

GML; OGC; Soil data; SOTER; Standard; Terrain data; XML

Indexed keywords

GML; OGC; SOIL DATA; SOTER; TERRAIN DATA;

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DATA INTERCHANGE; LANDFORMS; STANDARDS; XML;

SOILS;

DATA ASSIMILATION; DATABASE; INTERNET; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL CLASSIFICATION; STANDARD (REFERENCE); TERRAIN;

EID: 84863473203     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.11.026     Document Type: Article

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