Building on abstract reference models, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has
established standards for storing, discovering, and processing geographical information …

Gazetteers are key components of georeferenced information systems, including
applications such as Web-based mapping services. Existing gazetteers lack the capabilities …

Geo-spatial ontologies provide knowledge about places in the world and spatial relations
between them. They are fundamental in order to build semantic information retrieval systems …

We concentrate on geospatial ontologies. Our main contribution in this paper is a
methodology and a minimal set of guiding principles, inspired by the faceted approach, as …

Nowadays, the proliferation of geographic information systems has caused great interest in
integration. However, an integration process is not as simple as joining several systems …

The goal of the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) initiative of the Open Geospatial Consortium
(OGC) is the definition of web service interfaces and data encodings to make sensors …

This paper presents an investigation about the servers available in March 2011 conforming
to the Web Processing Service interface specification published by the geospatial standards …

The need for geolocation is crucial for many applications for both human and software
agents. More and more data is opened and interlinked using Linked Data principles, and it is …

When searching for sensor data, sensor instances, or Sensor Web Enablement (SWE)
services the description of the observed phenomenon plays an important role. Obviously …

This Chapter presents an enhanced search for information about a geographic feature
within different information sources, ie Geospatial Web resources. Geocoding is the principal …