TY - CHAP
T1 - Ontologies in the geographic information sector
AU - Billen, Roland
AU - Nogueras-Iso, Javier
AU - López-Pellicer, F. Javier
AU - Vilches-Blázquez, Luis M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag London Limited 2011.
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Geographical information (GI) or geoinformation describes phenomena associated directly or indirectly with a location (coordinates systems, address systems…) with respect to the Earth’s surface. Such phenomena can be either spatially discrete (represented by geometric primitives like points, lines, regions, etc.) such as a municipality, a road axis, etc. or spatially continuous (represented by interpolation on an image grid for example) such as terrain’s elevation, pollution diffusion, etc. GI is created by manipulating geographic data (or geospatial data) in a computerized system. Geospatial data can be acquired by different means: topographic survey, remote sensing, aerial photographs, GPS, laserscan, and all other types of sensors or survey techniques. Traditionally, these data are the core component of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which is the term commonly used to refer to the software packages that allow to capture, store, check, integrate, manipulate, analyze and display them.
AB - Geographical information (GI) or geoinformation describes phenomena associated directly or indirectly with a location (coordinates systems, address systems…) with respect to the Earth’s surface. Such phenomena can be either spatially discrete (represented by geometric primitives like points, lines, regions, etc.) such as a municipality, a road axis, etc. or spatially continuous (represented by interpolation on an image grid for example) such as terrain’s elevation, pollution diffusion, etc. GI is created by manipulating geographic data (or geospatial data) in a computerized system. Geospatial data can be acquired by different means: topographic survey, remote sensing, aerial photographs, GPS, laserscan, and all other types of sensors or survey techniques. Traditionally, these data are the core component of Geographic Information Systems (GIS), which is the term commonly used to refer to the software packages that allow to capture, store, check, integrate, manipulate, analyze and display them.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-0-85729-724-2_6
DO - 10.1007/978-0-85729-724-2_6
M3 - Capítulo
AN - SCOPUS:85032291937
T3 - Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
SP - 83
EP - 103
BT - Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing
PB - Springer London
ER -