Land-cover (LC) products, especially at the regional and global scales, comprise essential
data for a wide range of environmental studies affecting biodiversity, climate, and human …

This book discusses the fundamentals of land-use and land-cover characterization,
mapping, and monitoring using remote sensing technology. After covering the basic …

Geographic knowledge bases (GKBs) with multiple sources and forms are of obvious
heterogeneity, which hinders the integration of geographic knowledge. Entity alignment …

Integrating different information sources is a growing research area within different
application domains. This is particularly true for the geographic information domain which is …

Most widely available approaches to semantic integration provide ad-hoc, non-systematic,
subjective manual mappings that lead to procrustean amalgamations to fit the target …

Geographic Knowledge Engineering: Applications to Territorial Intelligence and Smart Cities
studies the specific nature of geographic knowledge and the structure of geographic …

This paper presents a task‐based and Semantic Web approach to find geospatial data. The
purpose of the project is to improve data discovery and facilitate automatic retrieval of data …

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is generated by heterogenous 'information
communities' that co-operate to produce reusable units of geographic knowledge. A …

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体被认为是²# 克服语义² 障的有效方法, & 文基于形式& 体的原理, 提i²# 对地理信息形式化语义 …

Text features in topographic maps are important for helping users to locate the area that a
map covers and to understand the map's content. Previous works on the optical detection of …