The Geospatial Web

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

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.

• 3D
• Browser
• Contextualization
• Geospatial Web
• Information Spaces
• JPEG
• JPEG 2000
• Knowledge Management
• Semantic Web
• Social Software
• Tagged
• machine learning
• modeling
• organization
• visualization

From the reviews:

"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)

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

  Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann

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