Discovery of geospatial resources [electronic resource] : methodologies, technologies, and emergent applications / Laura Diaz, Carlos Granell and Joaquin Huerta, editors.
Publication details: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.Description: electronic texts (276 p.) : ill., digital filesISBN:- 9781466609464 (ebook)
- Geographic information systems -- Research
- Geospatial data
- Spatial analysis (Statistics)
- Automatic extraction of metadata
- Automatic registration and publication of geospatial resources
- Classifications and indexing of geospatial resources
- Geospatial information infrastructure
- Geospatial metadata for data and services
- Geospatial web service registry and discovery
- Query languages
- Semantics, formats, tagging for geospatial resources discovery
- User interfaces for geospatial resources discovery
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- G70.212 .D64 2012e
- Also available in print.
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Describing and selecting collections of georeferenced media items in peer-to-peer information retrieval systems / Daniel Blank, Andreas Henrich -- 2. An assessment of several taxonomies of volunteered geographic information / Antony K Cooper, Serena Coetzee, Derrick G Kourie -- 3. New discovery methodologies in GIS: improving the information retrieval process / Nieves R. Brisaboa, Miguel R. Luaces, Diego Seco -- 4. Managing schema evolution in a federated spatial database system / Xiaoying Wu ... [et al.] -- 5. Automatic metadata generation for geospatial resource discovery / Miguel-Angel Manso-Callejo, Arturo Beltran Fonollosa -- 6. Discovering geosensor data by means of an event abstraction layer / Alejandro Llaves, Thomas Everding -- 7. Semantic enrichment for geospatial information in a tourism recommender system / Joan de la Flor ... [et al.] -- 8. Semantic annotation of geospatial RESTful services using external resources / Victor Saquicela, Luis. M. Vilches-Bl�azquez, Oscar Corcho -- 9. Methodologies for augmented discovery of geospatial resources / Mattia Santoro ... [et al.] -- 10. Data mining location-based social networks for geospatial discovery / Edward Pultar -- 11. Distributed geospatial data management for entomological and epidemiological studies / Hugo Martins, Jorge G. Rocha -- 12. Analysis of tourist behavior based on tracking data collected by GPS / Oriol Bernad�o ... [et al.] -- 13. User-friendly geoportal interfaces for geospatial resource discovery / Victor Pascual Ayats.
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"This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research finding to improve understanding of geospatial discovery methodologies and technologies, as well as techniques to design and deploy geospatial resources in Information Infrastructures"--Provided by publisher.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Description based on title screen (IGI Global, viewed April 22, 2012).