Using ontologies to relate resource management actions to environmental monitoring data in South East Queensland

International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-19

  Hunter, Jane ^a   Becker, Peter ^a   Alabri, Abdulmonem ^a   Van Ingen, Catharine ^b   Abal, Eva ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

^c South East Queensland Healthy Waterways Partnership ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive Resource Management; Ecoinformatics; Environmental Monitoring; Ontologies; Semantic Querying

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; ADAPTIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; DATA SETS; ECOINFORMATICS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MICROSOFT RESEARCHES; MULTI-DISCIPLINARY; NEAR-REAL TIME; ON-LINE ACCESS; QUEENSLAND; REPORT CARDS; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MANAGERS; SEMANTIC DATA; SEMANTIC TECHNOLOGIES; STATISTICAL DATA PROCESSING; TECHNOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK; UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND; WATER QUALITY INDICATORS; WATERRESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WEB MAPPING;

DATA PROCESSING; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT EXCHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA PROCESSING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; INTERNET; REAL TIME; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY;

AUSTRALIA; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84864560548     PISSN: 19473192     EISSN: 19473206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jaeis.2011010101     Document Type: Article

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