FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE OBSERVATION WEB

Sven Schade, Frank Ostermann, Laura Spinsanti

2011

Abstract

The integration of sensor-based information has been a research topic for many years. International standards, such as the Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) suite of specifications that will soon be released in its second version, have been developed, and major syntactical and structural challenges have been overcome. Solutions for addressing semantic aspects of interoperability have been suggested, but mature applications are still missing. The advent of user generated content for the geospatial domain, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which can be considered as readings of virtual sensors, makes it even more difficult to establish formal systems for the combination of information that is based on heterogeneous sensing methods. This paper proposes a novel approach of integrating conventional sensor information and VGI, which is exploited in the context of detecting forest fire events. In contrast to common logic-based semantic descriptions, we present a formal system using algebraic specifications as a more elegant, illustrative and straight forward solution.

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Schade S., Ostermann F. and Spinsanti L. (2011). FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE OBSERVATION WEB . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: SSW, (IC3K 2011) ISBN 978-989-8425-80-5, pages 498-504. DOI: 10.5220/0003698404980504


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@conference{ssw11,
author={Sven Schade and Frank Ostermann and Laura Spinsanti},
title={FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE OBSERVATION WEB},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: SSW, (IC3K 2011)},
year={2011},
pages={498-504},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003698404980504},
isbn={978-989-8425-80-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - Volume 1: SSW, (IC3K 2011)
TI - FUNCTIONAL INTEGRATION FOR THE OBSERVATION WEB
SN - 978-989-8425-80-5
AU - Schade S.
AU - Ostermann F.
AU - Spinsanti L.
PY - 2011
SP - 498
EP - 504
DO - 10.5220/0003698404980504