Geo-ontology model based on description logic

Author

Wang, Zhenchao ; Li, Manchun ; Li, Feixue

Author_Institution

Sch. of Geographic & Oceanogr., Nanjing Univ., Nanjing, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Geo-ontology is a newly risen research field in geospatial science. It was regarded as one of the most important research area in geospatial information science and digital earth. As the formal representation of geography cognition model or geography conceptual model, geo-ontology can support the description of geography concepts and semantic relationship of concept system well. Getting started with the abstraction of real geography world and geography cognition process, the concept and logical structure of geo-ontology was researched as well as formal expression, the geo-ontology model was built based on the theory of description logic. Finally, applications research in the field of land use was explored though the use of geo-ontology.

Keywords

geographic information systems; knowledge representation languages; ontologies (artificial intelligence); description logic; digital earth; geo-ontology model; geography cognition model; geography conceptual model; geospatial information science; geospatial science; land use; semantic relationship; Cognition; Geography; Geospatial analysis; Information science; Ontologies; Semantics; geo-ontologyl; logic; model; owl;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Geoinformatics, 2011 19th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2161-024X

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-849-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GeoInformatics.2011.5980754

Filename

5980754