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This paper presents a knowledge representation approach to modelling and manipulating spatio-temporal data and to grounding a spatio-temporal geographic ontology upon the data. This approach has been developed in the form of a definition-based ontological framework, upon which GIS applications can be developed to perform analysis of geographic phenomena by querying the spatio-temporal database in a more conceptualised fashion. We draw special attention to the representation of geographic features which can change over time, since an appropriate modelling of these dynamic features can provide a natural way of defining other dynamic entities of geographic space, such as events and processes. In addition, the paper discusses some architectural aspects of a GIS which incorporates our semantic model and describes an example of event modelling to illustrate the application of the proposed approach.
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Campelo, C.E.C., Bennett, B., Dimitrova, V. (2012). From Polygons and Timestamps to Dynamic Geographic Features: Grounding a Spatio-temporal Geo-ontology. In: Castano, S., Vassiliadis, P., Lakshmanan, L.V., Lee, M.L. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7518. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33999-8_31
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