A formal model to infer geographic events from sensor observations

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-27

  Devaraju, Anusuriya ^a   Kuhn, Werner ^b,d   Renschler, Chris S ^c  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

event oriented queries; events; ontology; rule based reasoning; sensor web

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924707132     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.933480     Document Type: Article

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