xiv, 295 pages : 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-286) and index

Foreword -- Preface -- Table of contents -- List of authors -- FOUNDATIONS OF THE GEOSPATIAL WEB. Towards the geospatial web: media platforms for managing geotagged knowledge repositories -- Infrastructure for the geospatial web -- Imaging on the geospatial web using JPEG 2000 -- What's so special about spatial? -- NAVIGATING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB. Conceptual search: incorporating geospatial data into semantic queries -- Location-based web search -- Ubiquitous browsing of the world -- Spatiotemporal-thematic data processing for the semantic web -- BUILDING THE GEOSPATIAL 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 COMMUNITIES. Geospatial information integration for science activity planning at the Mars Desert Research Station -- Inferences of social and spatial communities over the World Wide Web -- Participating in the geospatial web: collaborative mapping, social networks and participatory GIS -- Sharing, discovering and browsing geotagged pictures on the World Wide Web -- Supporting geo-semantic web communities with the DBin platform: use cases and perspectives -- ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS. A geospatial web platform for natural hazard exposure assessment in the insurance sector -- Development, implementation and application of the WebGIS MossMet -- European air quality mapping through interpolation with application to exposure and impact assessment -- Introduction to ubiquitous cartography and dynamic geovisualization with implications for disaster and crisis management -- Fire alerts for the geospatial web -- GEOSPATIAL WEB SERVICES. Geospatial web services: the evolution of geospatial data infrastructure -- SWING- a semantic framework for geospatial services -- Similarity-based retrieval for geospatial semantic web services specified using the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML-Core) -- Geospatial data integration with semantic web services: the eMerges approach -- Bibliography -- Online resources -- Index

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