Interoperability for geospatial analysis: A semantics and ontologybased approach

Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series

Volumn 63, Issue , 2007, Pages 83-92

  Kemp, Zarine ^a   Tan, Lei ^a   Whalley, Jacqueline ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Geospatial analysis; Information fusion; Knowledge base; Ontologies; Visualization

Indexed keywords

CONTEXT-AWARE; DATA EXPLORATION; DATA RESOURCES; DATA-SOURCES; DOMAIN LEVELS; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; INFORMATION EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RESOURCE; INTERACTIVE DATA ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; ONTOLOGY-BASED; SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINE; SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY; SPATIAL APPLICATIONS; USER COMMUNITIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FLOW VISUALIZATION; INFORMATION FUSION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS; VISUALIZATION;

INTEROPERABILITY;

EID: 84872856435     PISSN: 14451336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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