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The Geospatial Web

How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society

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Editors:
  1. Arno Scharl

    1. Know-Center & Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

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  2. Klaus Tochtermann

    1. Know-Center & Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

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  • First book on subject - since integrating semantic Web technology with geo-browsing platforms & the emerging breed of social software often summarised under the umbrella term ‘Web 2.0’
  • Clear focus on applied geospatial aspects
  • Appeal to industry practice through emphasis on applied science
  • Contributions from a very active research community
  • Foreword by Patrick J. Hogan, Program Manager of NASA World Wind

Part of the book series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI&KP)

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Foundations Of The Geospatial Web

    1. Towards the Geospatial Web: Media Platforms for Managing Geotagged Knowledge Repositories

      • Arno Scharl
      Pages 3-14

    2. Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web

      • Ron Lake, Jim Farley
      Pages 15-26

    3. Imaging on the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000

      • Michael P. Gerlek, Matthew Fleagle
      Pages 27-38

    4. What's So Special about Spatial?

      • Glen Hart, Catherine Dolbear
      Pages 39-44

  3. Navigating The Geospatial Web

    1. Conceptual Search: Incorporating Geospatial Data into Semantic Queries

      • William Kammersell, Mike Dean
      Pages 47-54

    2. Location-based Web Search

      • Dirk Ahlers, Susanne Boll
      Pages 55-66

    3. Ubiquitous Browsing of the World

      • Gabriella Castelli, Alberto Rosi, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
      Pages 67-78

    4. Spatiotemporal-Thematic Data Processing for the Semantic Web

      • Farshad Hakimpour, Boanerges Aleman-Meza, Matthew Perry, Amit Sheth
      Pages 79-89

  4. Building The Geospatial Web

    1. A Semantic Approach for Geospatial Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents

      • Christian Sallaberry, Mauro Gaio, Julien Lesbegueries, Pierre Loustau
      Pages 93-104

    2. Enhancing RSS Feeds with Extracted Geospatial Information for Further Processing and Visualization

      • Marc Wick, Torsten Becker
      Pages 105-115

    3. A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation

      • You-Heng Hu, Linlin Ge
      Pages 117-128

  5. Geospatial Communities

    1. Geospatial Information Integration for Science Activity Planning at the Mars Desert Research Station

      • Daniel C. Berrios, Maarten Sierhuis, Richard M. Keller
      Pages 131-140

    2. Inferences of Social and Spatial Communities over the World Wide Web

      • Pragya Agarwal, Roderic Béra, Christophe Claramunt
      Pages 141-152

    3. Participating in the Geospatial Web: Collaborative Mapping, Social Networks and Participatory GIS

      • L. Jesse Rouse, Susan J. Bergeron, Trevor M. Harris
      Pages 153-158

    4. Sharing, Discovering and Browsing Geotagged Pictures on the World Wide Web

      • Carlo Torniai, Steve Battle, Steve Cayzer
      Pages 159-170

    5. Supporting Geo-Semantic Web Communities with the DBin Platform: Use Cases and Perspectives

      • Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Michele Nucci, Ernesto Marcheggiani
      Pages 171-176

  6. Environmental Applications

    1. A Geospatial Web Platform for Natural Hazard Exposure Assessment in the Insurance Sector

      • Julien Iris, JérÔme Chemitte, Aldo Napoli
      Pages 179-190

    2. Development, Implementation and Application of the WebGIS MossMet

      • Roland Pesch, Gunther Schmidt, Winfried Schröder, Christian Aden, Lukas Kleppin, Marcel Holy
      Pages 191-200

    3. European Air Quality Mapping through Interpolation with Application to Exposure and Impact Assessment

      • Peter A. M. de Smet, Jan Horálek, Bruce Denby
      Pages 201-208
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About this book

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from government agencies, industry and the general public. NASA and other organizations have a wealth of planetary science data – representing the output from thousands of satellites in earth-orbit, and from dozens of costly missions to other planets. Benefits derived from both the data and visual interfaces to access the data represent a significant return on investment for the public. Integrating geospatial data with semantic and collaborative Web technology multiplies the public benefits and represents the main focus of this book. The user interfaces of geobrowsers are designed for the layperson, giving conv- ient access to all kinds of geographically referenced information. Geobrowsers hide the technical details related to finding, accessing and retrieving such information. The daunting challenge of the Geospatial Web is to seamlessly integrate and display vastly different information modes. Nowadays, it is not enough to simply display a map of some region; additional dynamic information modes need to be displayed and put into context – from weather sensor readings and live aerial video feeds to daily news updates, photo collections and video archives.

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"The Geospatial Web is an edited volume of 25 chapters, which attempts to bring together the academic research on Geospatial web technologies and provide an up-to-date review of this fast moving discipline. … would suit postgraduate students who have the knowledge to be selective: picking out chapters of particular relevance." (Ed. Parsons, GIS Professional, Issue 17, 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Know-Center & Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

    Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann

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