The Geospatial Web

How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society

By: Arno Scharl (Editor), Klaus Tochtermann (Editor)

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Hardcover | 11 June 2007

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The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from government agencies, industry and the general public. NASA and other organizations have a wealth of planetary science data - representing the output from thousands of satellites in earth-orbit, and from dozens of costly missions to other planets. Benefits derived from both the data and visual interfaces to access the data represent a significant return on investment for the public. Integrating geospatial data with semantic and collaborative Web technology multiplies the public benefits and represents the main focus of this book. The user interfaces of geobrowsers are designed for the layperson, giving conv- ient access to all kinds of geographically referenced information. Geobrowsers hide the technical details related to finding, accessing and retrieving such information. The daunting challenge of the Geospatial Web is to seamlessly integrate and display vastly different information modes. Nowadays, it is not enough to simply display a map of some region; additional dynamic information modes need to be displayed and put into context - from weather sensor readings and live aerial video feeds to daily news updates, photo collections and video archives.

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"The Geospatial Web is an edited volume of 25 chapters, which attempts to bring together the academic research on Geospatial web technologies and provide an up-to-date review of this fast moving discipline. ... would suit postgraduate students who have the knowledge to be selective: picking out chapters of particular relevance." (Ed. Parsons, GIS Professional, Issue 17, 2007)

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Geographical Information Systems GIS & Remote Sensing Computing & I.T.Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Computer Science Databases Graphical & Digital Media Applications Information Technology General Issue Operating Systems

From the contents Towards the Geospatial Web
Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web
Imaging on the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000
What's so Special about Spatial?
Conceptual Search
Location-based Web Search
Ubiquitous Browsing of the World
Spatiotemporal-Thematic Data Processing for the Semantic Web
A Semantic Approach for Geospatial Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
Enhancing RSS Feeds with Extracted Geospatial Information for further Processing and Visualization
A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation
Geospatial Information Integration for Science Activity Planning at the Mars Desert Research Station
Inferences of Social and Spatial Communities over the World Wide Web
A Geospatial Web Platform for Natural Hazard Exposure Assessment in the Insurance Sector
Development, Implementation and Application of the WebGIS 'MossMet'
Geospatial Web Services
Geospatial Data Integration with Semantic Web Services
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The Geospatial Web

How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society

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