A Semantic Geodatabase for Environment Analysis - Extraction, Management and Sharing of Earth and Water Information in GIS

Andrea Lingua, Francesca Noardo

2015

Abstract

The great potential of GIS to manage and analyse georeferenced information is well-known. The last several years of development of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) saw a necessity of interoperability arise, from which the Semantic web standards and domain ontologies are derived. Specific application field ontologies are often insufficient for representing the information of multidisciplinary projects. Moreover, they are often aimed at the representation of homogeneous data formats (alphanumeric data, vector spatial data, raster spatial data, etc.). In this scenario, traditional GIS often have a limit: they implement personal data models, which are very difficult to exchange through different systems. In this study we structured a GIS for the monitoring project ALCOTRA ALIRHYS according to parts of two different self-integrated ontologies, from the perspective of the major interoperability of the system and the sharing of data through a web-GIS platform. The two standard models chosen (SWEET ontology and INSPIRE UML model) have been integrated in a unique conceptual model useful both for geometric and cartographic data, and for thematic information. In this case, the implemented schemas are published on the project website, and are available for other users who want to produce similar studies. Since user-friendly results were desirable, some integrated commercial widespread software programs have been used even if their abilities to manage such a GIS are suboptimal.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lingua A. and Noardo F. (2015). A Semantic Geodatabase for Environment Analysis - Extraction, Management and Sharing of Earth and Water Information in GIS . In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-099-4, pages 213-220. DOI: 10.5220/0005379002130220

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam15,
author={Andrea Lingua and Francesca Noardo},
title={A Semantic Geodatabase for Environment Analysis - Extraction, Management and Sharing of Earth and Water Information in GIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2015},
pages={213-220},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005379002130220},
isbn={978-989-758-099-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - A Semantic Geodatabase for Environment Analysis - Extraction, Management and Sharing of Earth and Water Information in GIS
SN - 978-989-758-099-4
AU - Lingua A.
AU - Noardo F.
PY - 2015
SP - 213
EP - 220
DO - 10.5220/0005379002130220