Volume 4, Issue 1, September 2013, Pages 83–87
Yuniel E. Proenza Arias1, Ismael Navas Delgado2, and José F. Aldana Montes3
1 Centro de Desarrollo GEYSED, Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, La Habana, Cuba
2 Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
3 Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Geographical Information Systems have become useful for fleet control, hurricane tracking, tourism analysis and some other critical fields that include decision making processes. The analysis have been mainly focused on historical movement, movement prediction and motion patterns detection, which have a tremendous impact in traffic analysis, finding locations of interest and most visited places, estimating hurricane damage and so more. Recently, ontology driven GIS have shown to the scientific community the advantages of making semantic analysis based in ontology models. In this work we present the advantages of using ontologies for representing moving entities and enriching information with semantics. We also present some experimental results of using an ontological model and making semantic queries over the laying information, encouraging on several obtained benefits and aiming to state a basis for enhanced ontology driven GIS.
Author Keywords: GIS, Ontologies, Moving objects, Semantics, Hurricane tracking.
Yuniel E. Proenza Arias1, Ismael Navas Delgado2, and José F. Aldana Montes3
1 Centro de Desarrollo GEYSED, Universidad de las Ciencias Informáticas, La Habana, Cuba
2 Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
3 Departamento de Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Original language: English
Copyright © 2013 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
Geographical Information Systems have become useful for fleet control, hurricane tracking, tourism analysis and some other critical fields that include decision making processes. The analysis have been mainly focused on historical movement, movement prediction and motion patterns detection, which have a tremendous impact in traffic analysis, finding locations of interest and most visited places, estimating hurricane damage and so more. Recently, ontology driven GIS have shown to the scientific community the advantages of making semantic analysis based in ontology models. In this work we present the advantages of using ontologies for representing moving entities and enriching information with semantics. We also present some experimental results of using an ontological model and making semantic queries over the laying information, encouraging on several obtained benefits and aiming to state a basis for enhanced ontology driven GIS.
Author Keywords: GIS, Ontologies, Moving objects, Semantics, Hurricane tracking.
How to Cite this Article
Yuniel E. Proenza Arias, Ismael Navas Delgado, and José F. Aldana Montes, “Semantic Representation of Moving Entities for Enhancing Geographical Information Systems,” International Journal of Innovation and Applied Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 83–87, September 2013.