Geospatial Semantic Web: An Introduction

Chapter one: Geospatial data interoperability, Geography Markup Language (GML), Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), and Geospatial Web Services.- Geospatial data interoperability.- Geography Markup Language.- Scalable Vector Graphics.- Geospatial web services.- Chapter two: Conceptual frameworks of Geospatial Semantic Web.- Semantic problem of spatial data.- What is Geospatial Semantic Web? Why Do We Need Geospatial Semantic Web?.- A Geospatial Semantic Web Architecture.- Chapter three: Ontology languages and Geospatial Semantic Web.- RDF (Resource Description Framework).- OWL (Web Ontology Language).- From UML (Unified Modeling Language) to OWL.- Ontology-based reasoning and rule-based knowledge inference.-Chapter four: Ontology data query in Geospatial Semantic Web.- Introduction.- SPARQL.- GeoSPARQL.- Spatial data indexing.- Spatial join.- GeoSPARQL query algorithm.- Optimization and parallelization.- Related works.- Chapter five: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems and their interactions with Geospatial Semantic Web.- Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Geospatial Semantic Web.- A Framework of an interoperable online VGI system.- A case study for developing an interoperable online VGI system.- Current challenges and future studies for online VGI system.- Chapter six: Applications of Geospatial Semantic Web.- Background.- NLP (Natural Language Processing) based geospatial query interface.- Volunteered geospatial information system.- Geospatial interface for transit network.- Spatial decision support system.- Chapter Seven: Current and Future Challenges of Geospatial Semantic Web.- Service Composition issue.- Natural Language Processing (NLP) issue.- Ontology issue.- Performance issue.- Geospatial big data issue.- Cloud computing issue.- Index.