TY - GEN
T1 - Geospatial information integration approach based on geographic context ontologies
AU - Torres, Miguel
AU - Quintero, Rolando
AU - Levachkine, Serguei
AU - Moreno, Marco
AU - Guzman, Giovanni
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - Geospatial information integration is not a trivial task. An integrated view must be able to describe various heterogeneous data sources and its interrelation to obtain shared conceptualizations. In this work, an approach to geospatial information integration based on the conceptualization of the geographic domain is described. As a result of this conceptualization, we propose a semantic method for geospatial information integration. This consists of providing semantic descriptions, which explicitly describe the properties and relations of geographic objects represented by concepts, while the behavior depicts the objects, semantics. Also, this method allows us to compress and share geospatial information by means of alternative structures of knowledge representation. Thus, it avoids the ambiguity of the terms, using a geographic domain conceptualization. The general vision of the paper is to establish the basis to implement semantic processing oriented to geospatial data. Future work is focused on designing intelligent geographic information systems (iGIS).
AB - Geospatial information integration is not a trivial task. An integrated view must be able to describe various heterogeneous data sources and its interrelation to obtain shared conceptualizations. In this work, an approach to geospatial information integration based on the conceptualization of the geographic domain is described. As a result of this conceptualization, we propose a semantic method for geospatial information integration. This consists of providing semantic descriptions, which explicitly describe the properties and relations of geographic objects represented by concepts, while the behavior depicts the objects, semantics. Also, this method allows us to compress and share geospatial information by means of alternative structures of knowledge representation. Thus, it avoids the ambiguity of the terms, using a geographic domain conceptualization. The general vision of the paper is to establish the basis to implement semantic processing oriented to geospatial data. Future work is focused on designing intelligent geographic information systems (iGIS).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79953304400&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-00304-2_12
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-00304-2_12
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:79953304400
SN - 9783642003035
T3 - Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
SP - 177
EP - 191
BT - Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems - Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop, IF and GIS 2009
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
T2 - 4th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems, IF and GIS 2009
Y2 - 17 May 2009 through 20 May 2009
ER -