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Semantically Enriching an Open Source Sensor Observation Service Implementation for Accessing Heterogeneous Environmental Data Sources
Author(s) -
Hilbring Désirée,
Moumtzidou Anastasia,
Moßgraber Jürgen,
Vrochidis Stefanos
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
transactions in gis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.721
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1467-9671
pISSN - 1361-1682
DOI - 10.1111/tgis.12055
Subject(s) - computer science , ontology , sensor web , interface (matter) , service (business) , web service , sensor fusion , database , world wide web , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , philosophy , wireless network , key distribution in wireless sensor networks , economy , epistemology , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method , parallel computing , economics , wireless
Many kinds of environmental data are nowadays publicly available, but spread over the web. This article discusses using the Sensor Observation Service ( SOS ) standard of the O pen G eospatial C onsortium ( OGC ) as a common interface for providing data from heterogeneous sources which can be integrated to a user tailored environmental information system. In order to allow for providing user‐tailored and problem‐specific information the adjusted SOS is augmented by a semantic layer which maps the environmental information to ontology concepts. The necessary information fusion from different domains and data types lead to several specific requirements for the SOS . Addressing these requirements we have implemented a SOS which still conforms to the OGC SOS 1.0.0 standard specification. The developed SOS has been integrated in a publicly available demonstrator of our personalized environmental information system. Additionally this article discusses future consequences for the SOS , caused by the recently published SOS 2.0 specification.
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