2017
Granell-Canut, Carlos; Miralles-Tena, Ignacio; Rodríguez-Pupo, Luis Enrique; González-Pérez, Alberto; Casteleyn, Sven; Busetto, Lorenzo; Pepe, Monica; Boschetti, Mirco; Huerta-Guijarro, Joaquín
Conceptual Architecture and Service-Oriented Implementation of a Regional Geoportal for Rice Monitoring Journal Article
In: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, vol. 6, no. 7, pp. 191, 2017, ISSN: 2220-9964.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Data integration, geoportals, Geospatial services, remote sensing for agriculture, rice crop monitoring, service-oriented architecture, web mapping for agriculture
@article{granell2017conceptual,
title = {Conceptual Architecture and Service-Oriented Implementation of a Regional Geoportal for Rice Monitoring},
author = {Carlos Granell-Canut and Ignacio Miralles-Tena and Luis Enrique Rodríguez-Pupo and Alberto González-Pérez and Sven Casteleyn and Lorenzo Busetto and Monica Pepe and Mirco Boschetti and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro},
url = {http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/6/7/191},
issn = {2220-9964},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-06-23},
journal = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information},
volume = {6},
number = {7},
pages = {191},
publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
keywords = {Data integration, geoportals, Geospatial services, remote sensing for agriculture, rice crop monitoring, service-oriented architecture, web mapping for agriculture},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
2014
Granell-Canut, Carlos; Belmonte-Fernández, Óscar; Díaz-Sánchez, Laura
Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities Journal Article
In: Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 213-222, 2014, ISSN: 0167739X, (IF: 2.786, Q1).
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Geospatial Information Infrastructures, Geospatial services, Health applications, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)
@article{GranellCanut2014,
title = {Geospatial information infrastructures to address spatial needs in health: Collaboration, challenges and opportunities},
author = { Carlos Granell-Canut and Óscar Belmonte-Fernández and Laura Díaz-Sánchez},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/89109},
doi = {10.1016/j.future.2013.04.002},
issn = {0167739X},
year = {2014},
date = {2014-01-01},
journal = {Future Generation Computer Systems},
volume = {31},
number = {1},
pages = {213-222},
abstract = {Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial-temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make informed decisions and coordinate response plans. Although current health applications support a kind of geospatial features, these are still disconnected from the wide range of geospatial services and datasets that geospatial information infrastructures may bring into health. In this paper we are questioning the hypothesis whether geospatial information infrastructures, in terms of standards-based geospatial services, technologies, and data models as operational assets already in place, can be exploited by health applications for which the geospatial dimension is of great importance. This may be certainly addressed by defining better collaboration strategies to uncover and promote geospatial assets to the health community. We discuss the value of collaboration, as well as the opportunities that geographic information infrastructures offer to address geospatial challenges in health applications. textcopyright 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.},
note = {IF: 2.786, Q1},
keywords = {Geospatial Information Infrastructures, Geospatial services, Health applications, Spatial data infrastructures (SDI)},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
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Most health-related issues such as public health outbreaks and epidemiological threats are better understood from a spatial-temporal perspective and, clearly demand related geospatial datasets and services so that decision makers may jointly make informed decisions and coordinate response plans. Although current health applications support a kind of geospatial features, these are still disconnected from the wide range of geospatial services and datasets that geospatial information infrastructures may bring into health. In this paper we are questioning the hypothesis whether geospatial information infrastructures, in terms of standards-based geospatial services, technologies, and data models as operational assets already in place, can be exploited by health applications for which the geospatial dimension is of great importance. This may be certainly addressed by defining better collaboration strategies to uncover and promote geospatial assets to the health community. We discuss the value of collaboration, as well as the opportunities that geographic information infrastructures offer to address geospatial challenges in health applications. textcopyright 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
2012
Kalinaki, Elisabeth A.
A Web based geospatial application for disaster preparedness in Uganda Masters Thesis
Universitat Jaume I, 2012.
BibTeX | Tags: Disaster management, Geospatial services
@mastersthesis{Kalinaki2012,
title = {A Web based geospatial application for disaster preparedness in Uganda},
author = {Elisabeth A. Kalinaki},
editor = {Laura Díaz-Sánchez (supervisor) and Ismael Sanz-Blasco (co-supervisor) and Pedro Cabral (co-supervisor)},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
school = {Universitat Jaume I},
keywords = {Disaster management, Geospatial services},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {mastersthesis}
}
Larizgoitia, Iker; Fonollosa, Arturo Beltrán; Toma, Ioan; Maué, Patrick
Publication and Discovery of Semantically Annotated Geospatial Web Services Proceedings Article
In: EuroInfo 2012: Proceedings of the 26th international conference on informatics for environmental protection, sustainable development and risk management: Part 1: Core Application Areas, pp. 185–192, Shaker, Dessau, 2012, ISBN: 978-3-8440-1248-4.
Abstract | BibTeX | Tags: Geospatial services, semantic annotations, web services
@inproceedings{Larizgoitia2012,
title = {Publication and Discovery of Semantically Annotated Geospatial Web Services},
author = { Iker Larizgoitia and Arturo Beltrán Fonollosa and Ioan Toma and Patrick Maué},
isbn = {978-3-8440-1248-4},
year = {2012},
date = {2012-01-01},
booktitle = {EuroInfo 2012: Proceedings of the 26th international conference on informatics for environmental protection, sustainable development and risk management: Part 1: Core Application Areas},
pages = {185--192},
publisher = {Shaker},
address = {Dessau},
abstract = {Environmental information and services have become a crucial asset in the creation of decission support systems. Unfortunately, this information and services are not usually exposed in an interoperable and standard way, limiting their reusability and impact in the community. Publishing and discovering geospatial information and services on the Web is therefore an important challenge in order to create a breeding ground for collaboration and more sophisticated environmental platforms. Based on common standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as the starting point to ensure interoperability, we propose a discovery mechanism based on semantic annotations. OGC service descriptions are annotated with SAWSDL and linked to concepts in domain ontologies, following a common semantic service model. We seamlessly integrate the semantics in the standard OGC discovery infrastructure, extend-ing the CSW service catalogues with semantic publication and discovery. Semantics queries can be created based on formal languages like WSML, significantly improving the precission of discovery. In this paper we present our ap-proach, which provides a semantic infrastructure for publication and discovery of environmentally enabled web ser-vices.},
keywords = {Geospatial services, semantic annotations, web services},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Environmental information and services have become a crucial asset in the creation of decission support systems. Unfortunately, this information and services are not usually exposed in an interoperable and standard way, limiting their reusability and impact in the community. Publishing and discovering geospatial information and services on the Web is therefore an important challenge in order to create a breeding ground for collaboration and more sophisticated environmental platforms. Based on common standards defined by the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) as the starting point to ensure interoperability, we propose a discovery mechanism based on semantic annotations. OGC service descriptions are annotated with SAWSDL and linked to concepts in domain ontologies, following a common semantic service model. We seamlessly integrate the semantics in the standard OGC discovery infrastructure, extend-ing the CSW service catalogues with semantic publication and discovery. Semantics queries can be created based on formal languages like WSML, significantly improving the precission of discovery. In this paper we present our ap-proach, which provides a semantic infrastructure for publication and discovery of environmentally enabled web ser-vices.