The availability of geographic and geospatial information and services,
especially on the open Web has become abundant in the last several years
with the proliferation of online maps, geo-coding services, geospatial
Web services and geospatially enabled applications. The need for
geospatial reasoning has significantly increased in many everyday
applications including personal digital assistants, Web search
applications, local aware mobile services, specialized systems for
emergency response, medical triaging, intelligence analysis and more.
Geospatial Semantics and the Semantic Web: Foundations, Algorithms, and
Applications, an edited volume contributed by world class leaders in
this field, provides recent research in the theme of geospatial
semantics. This edited volume presents new information systems
applications that have potential for high impact and commercialization.
Also, special effort was made by the contributors to focus on geospatial
ontology development, related standards, geospatial ontology alignment
and integration, and algorithmic techniques for geospatial semantics.
Case studies and examples will be provided throughout this book as well
as possibilities for future research.