Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA) represents the most innovative new
trend for processing remote sensing images that has appeared during the last decade …

The availability of open data and of tools to create visualizations on top of these open
datasets have led to an ever-growing amount of geovisualizations on the Web. There is thus …

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 …

Environmental modelling often requires a long iterative process of sourcing, reformatting,
analyzing, and introducing various types of data into the model. Much of the data to be …

As research advances in computing technology continue to accelerate, so too do the
emerging opportunities, issues, and challenges facing individuals, organizations, and …

Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has
established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information …

Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

The field of geographic information science has grown exponentially over the last few
decades and, particularly within the context of the pervasiveness of the internet, bears …

In this paper we focus on the semantic heterogeneity problem as one of the main challenges
in current Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). We first report on the state of the art in reducing …

Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term
semantics refers to the meaning of things, and is in contrast with the term syntactics …