This paper proposes an ontology-enabled framework for a geospatial problem-solving
environment (geospatial PSE) that allows collaboration among Web-service providers …

There is increasing interest in shared geospatial information spaces. In the context of Spatial
Data Infrastructures (SDI), heterogeneity of legacy systems and variety in existing standards …

Geospatial web services are widely utilised to disseminate spatial data and processing
capability over the internet. Combining geospatial web services and generating composite …

Abstract Geospatial Web Services (GWS) provide access to geospatial data and expose
basic processing functionality using Web Service technology. The complexity of geo …

Standardisation efforts in the geospatial domain, provided by ISO TC 211 and OpenGIS
Consortium, have brought many specifications and standards that define structure and …

We present an approach for the semantic integration of geoscience data, and a system
implementing this approach. Specifically, we demonstrate the use of data ontologies and …

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

We describe a semantically-based Web Map Mediation Service (WMMS) that allows
researchers to define, capture and reuse semantic relationships between map categories …

We have to understand better the complex interactions between global environmental
change and the impacts on and of humanity, and assess the risk we are facing, how to …

Geo-information (GI) service automated composition according to user demands is a crucial
task in spatial data infrastructures. State-of-the-art GI service composition approaches face …