GNR 629- Advances in Geospatial Standards, Interoperability and Knowledge Discovery

Introduction to Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) web services, OGC Geospatial Sensor Web framework; Sensor Model Language (SensorML), Sensor Observation Service (SOS), Sensor Alert Service (SAS), case studies on sensor web implementations in various environmental applications, Geocomputational methods, spatial sensors, Spatio-temporal data mining. Ontology-based geospatial information sharing, retrieval and integration, Ontology languages for the semantic web, Geospatial Ontologies development, GeoSemantic Web Services, SPARQL query language, survey of ontology mapping techniques.Tutorial: Advanced hands on experience on building web services oriented systems for sensor web enablement and geospatial applications. Software development in Java, Jena API, AJAX, Android, PostGIS spatial database extension for PostgreSQL etc., understanding servlets, servlet containers (e.g. Tomcat).


  • Text / References:
  • Grigoris Antoniou and Frank van Harmelen., A Semantic Web Primer, second edition, MIT press, 2008.
  • Jerome Euzenat, Pavel Shvaiko., Ontology Matching, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg (DE), 2007.
  • Anthony Stefanidis , Silvia Nittel, GeoSensor Networks, CRC Press; London, 2004
  • Studer, Rudi; Grimm, Stephan; Abecker, Andreas, Semantic Web Services, Springer, Heidelberg, 2007
  • OGC Sensor Web Enablement Framework, OGC
  • Web Ontology Language Overview,http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/
  • SPARQL query language for RDF, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query/
  • Javier Nogueras-Iso , Francisco Javier Zarazaga-Soria , Pedro R. Muro-Medrano, Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval, Springer, Heidelberg, 2005.