The geospatial web
Subtitle: how geobrowsers, social software and the Web 2.0 are shaping the network society
By: Arno Scharl and Klaus Tochtermann (eds.).
Contributors: Scharl, Arno, 1970-; Tochtermann, K.
Series: Advanced information and knowledge processing
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781846288265
Subjects: Geographic information systems; Internet
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Preface; title: Table of contents; title: List of authors; title: FOUNDATIONS OF THE GEOSPATIAL WEB.  Towards the geospatial web: media platforms for managing geotagged knowledge repositories; title: Infrastructure for the geospatial web; title: Imaging on the geospatial web using JPEG 2000; title: What's so special about spatial?; title: NAVIGATING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB.  Conceptual search: incorporating geospatial data into semantic queries; title: Location-based web search; title: Ubiquitous browsing of the world; title: Spatiotemporal-thematic data processing for the semantic web; title: BUILDING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB.  A semantic approach for geospatial information extraction from unstructured documents; title: Enhancing RSS feeds with extracted geospatial information for further processing and visualization; title: A supervised machine learning approach to toponym disambiguation; title: GEOSPATIAL COMMUNITIES.  Geospatial information integration for science activity planning at the Mars Desert Research Station; title: Inferences of social and spatial communities over the World Wide Web; title: Participating in the geospatial web: collaborative mapping, social networks and participatory GIS; title: Sharing, discovering and browsing geotagged pictures on the World Wide Web; title: Supporting geo-semantic web communities with the DBin platform: use cases and perspectives; title: ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS.  A geospatial web platform for natural hazard exposure assessment in the insurance sector; title: Development, implementation and application of the WebGIS MossMet; title: European air quality mapping through interpolation with application to exposure and impact assessment; title: Introduction to ubiquitous cartography and dynamic geovisualization with implications for disaster and crisis management; title: Fire alerts for the geospatial web; title: GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES.  Geospatial web services: the evolution of geospatial data infrastructure; title: SWING- a semantic framework for geospatial services; title: Similarity-based retrieval for geospatial semantic web services specified using the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML-Core); title: Geospatial data integration with semantic web services: the eMerges approach; title: Bibliography; title: Online resources; title: Index.