Geospatial Ontology

A Geospatial Ontology is a Domain Ontology for Geospatial Concepts.

• Context:
  • It contains Geospatial Records.
  • It can be a Topographic Ontology.
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• Example(s):
  • NASA's Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/ontology/
• See: Open Geospatial Consortium, Planetary Ontology.

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References

• Marinos Kavouras and Margarita Kokla. (2008). Theories of Geographic Concepts: Ontological Approaches to Semantic Integration, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, Boca Raton, FL, USA, 2008.

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