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Original Articles

Integrating geographical information in the Linked Digital Earth

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Pages 554-575 | Received 15 Jun 2012, Accepted 03 Mar 2013, Published online: 17 Apr 2013
 

Abstract

Many progresses have been made since the Digital Earth notion was envisioned thirteen years ago. However, the mechanism for integrating geographic information into the Digital Earth is still quite limited. In this context, we have developed a process to generate, integrate and publish geospatial Linked Data from several Spanish National data-sets. These data-sets are related to four Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE) themes, specifically with Administrative units, Hydrography, Statistical units, and Meteorology. Our main goal is to combine different sources (heterogeneous, multidisciplinary, multitemporal, multiresolution, and multilingual) using Linked Data principles. This goal allows the overcoming of current problems of information integration and driving geographical information toward the next decade scenario, that is, ‘Linked Digital Earth.’

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported by the PlanetData (FP7-257641) and myBigData (TIN2010-17060) projects. We would like to kindly thank all OEG members involved in the Linked Data initiatives.

Notes

1. Boris Villazón-Terrazas is now working at iSOCO.

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