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Table of Contents - Special Paper 397

Geoinformatics: Data to Knowledge

Edited by A. Krishna Sinha


Preface v
1. Representing geoscientific knowledge in cyberinfrastructure: Some challenges, approaches, and implementations
Boyan Brodaric and Mark Gahegan
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2. A community effort to construct a gravity database for the United States and an associated Web portal
G. Randy Keller, T.G. Hildenbrand, R. Kucks, M. Webring, Allen Briesacher, Kristine Rujawitz, A.M. Hittleman, D.R. Roman, Daniel Winester, R. Aldouri, John Seeley, Jorge Rasillo, Roberto Torres, William J. Hinze, Ann Gates, Vladik Kreinovich, and Leonardo Salayandia
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3. The Georgia Basin Digital Library for Sustainable Development: A digital library approach to addressing the societal relevance of geoscientific knowledge
Rob Harrap, Sonia Talwar, Murray Journeay, Boyan Brodaric, Ryan Grant, Joost Van Ulden, and Shannon Denny
35
4. An integrated chronostratigraphic data system for the twenty-first century
Paul J. Sikora, James G. Ogg, Anthony Gary, Cinzia Cervato, Felix Gradstein, Brian T. Huber, Charles Marshall, Jeffrey A. Stein, and Bruce Wardlaw
53
5. A geochemical database for western North American volcanic and intrusive rocks (NAVDAT)
J. Douglas Walker, Todd D. Bowers, Ross A. Black, Allen F. Glazner, G. Lang Farmer, and Richard W. Carlson
61
6. Building the American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database: A recipe for construction of a small Internet database
Hareesh Rajan, Hinako Uchida, Deborah L. Bryan, Ranjini Swaminathan, Robert T. Downs, and Michelle Hall-Wallace
73
7. Geoscience concept models
Stephen M. Richard
81
8. Managing scientific data: From data integration to scientific workflows
Bertram Ludäscher, Kai Lin, Shawn Bowers, Efrat Jaeger-Frank, Boyan Brodaric, and Chaitan Baru
109
9. Active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, and fault system dynamics: How geoinformatics can help
J Ramón Arrowsmith
131
10. Fusion of Landsat ETM+ and radar data to enhance the extraction of surface and near-subsurface information
Hongjie Xie and G. Randy Keller
141
11. Data fusion in geophysics: Seismic tomography and crustal structure in Poland as an example
Matthew G. Averill, G. Randy Keller, Kate C. Miller, Piotr Sroda, Tiffni Bond, and Aaron Velasco
153
12. Schema to ontology for igneous rocks
A.K. Sinha, A. Zendel, B. Brodaric, C. Barnes, and Jihane Najdi
169
13. GeoNet: Use of grid technologies in geoinformatics for the transition zone between the Colorado Plateau and the Basin and Range province
Leonardo Salayandia, Yuan Huang, Ann Q. Gates, and Steven Roach
183
14. Development of ontologies for earth system science
Rob Raskin
195
15. The case for transforming the geological survey knowledge system: Where digital geoscience spatial models meet the semantic Grid
T.V. Loudon
201
16. The concept of geological uncertainties and new ways of their geomathematical evaluation
György Bárdossy and János Fodor
211
17. Application of fuzzy arithmetic and prior information to the assessment of the completeness of a mineral exploration program: A case study
György Bárdossy and János Fodor
217
18. The system integrator in distributed data systems: The OPeNDAP Data Connector (ODC)
Peter Cornillon, John Chamberlain, and Daniel Holloway
225
19. Bird’s-eye view of data mining in geosciences
Rahul Ramachandran, John Rushing, Xiang Li, Chandrika Kamath, Helen Conover, and Sara Graves
235
20. A new GIS-driven geophysical database for the southwestern United States
Jesse B. Yoburn, Matthew J. Fouch, J Ramón Arrowsmith, and G. Randy Keller
249
21. Designing a modular architecture for the structural geology ontology
Hassan A. Babaie, John S. Oldow, Abbed Babaei, Hans G. Avé Lallemant, and A. John Watkinson
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