The domain ontology of typhoon disasters and its application

Author

Yang, Zhihai ; Lin, Guangfa ; Chen, Junming

Author_Institution

Coll. of Geogr. Sci., Fujian Normal Univ., Fuzhou, China

fYear

2011

fDate

24-26 June 2011

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Typhoon disaster is a complex system in which the environmental possibilities with hazard (EPH) and the bodies bearing disasters (BBD) are various. And different disasters caused by typhoon not only have their own laws of occurring, developing and turning into disasters, but also have explicit relationships among them. As a modeling tool describing concepts on semantic and knowledge level, ontology provides a new approach to the investigation of natural disasters. According to the theory of natural disasters system, this paper described a formal and hierarchical domain ontology of typhoon disasters. And some typical chain patterns of typhoon disasters were identified based on this ontology manually.

Keywords

disasters; geophysics computing; hazards; ontologies (artificial intelligence); storms; bodies bearing disasters; environmental possibilities; formal domain ontology; hazard; hierarchical domain ontology; natural disasters; typhoon disaster chain pattern; Floods; Humans; OWL; Ontologies; Semantics; Terrain factors; Typhoons; bodies bearing disasters; environmental possibilities with hazard; factors inducing disasters; ontology; typhoon disasters;

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.2011.5980874

Filename

5980874