Semantic Web-based Intelligent Geospatial Web Services

By introducing Semantic Web technologies into geospatial Web services, this book addresses the semantic description of geospatial data and standards—based Web services, discovery of geospatial data and services, and generation of composite services. Semantic descriptions for geospatial data, services, and geoprocessing service chains are structured, organized, and registered in geospatial catalogue services. The ontology—based approach helps to improve the recall and precision of data and s...