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Table of Contents - Special Paper 482

Societal Challenges and Geoinformatics

Edited by A. Krishna Sinha, David Arctur, Ian Jackson, and Linda Gundersen

Preface		v
1.	Integrating sensor data and geospatial tools to enhance real-time disaster management capabilities: Wildfire observations Vincent G. Ambrosia, Donald V. Sullivan, and Sally W. Buechel	1
2.	Ontological relations and spatial reasoning in earth science ontologies Hassan A. Babaie	13
3.	Geoscience metadata—No pain, no gain Jeremy R.A. Giles	29
4.	Geoscience data and derived spatial information: Societal impacts and benefits, and relevance to geological surveys and agencies R.A. Hughes	35
5.	Strategic Sustainability Assessment B. Deal, E. Jenicek, W. Goran, N. Myers, and J. Fittipaldi	41
6.	Grid query optimization in the analysis of cone penetration testing data Patrick M. Dudas, Hassan A. Karimi, and Abdelmounaam Rezgui	59
7.	The role and development of a persistent interoperability test bed for geosciences research M.J. Jackson, G. Hobona, L. Bernard, J. Brauner, and C. Higgins	69
8.	GEONETCast: Global satellite data dissemination and the technical and social challenges George Jungbluth, Richard Fulton, Linda Moodie, Paul Seymour, Mike Williams, Lothar Wolf, and Jiashen Zhang	77
9.	Developing and implementing international geoscience standards—A domestic perspective J.L. Laxton and T.R. Duffy	87
10.	The need for ontologies: Bridging the barriers of terminology and data structure Leo Obrst and Patrick Cassidy	99
11.	Data provenance for preservation of digital geoscience data Beth Plale, Bin Cao, Chathura Herath, and Yiming Sun	125
12.	Theoretical foundations of the event bush method Cyril A. Pshenichny and Oksana M. Kanzheleva	139
13.	Infusing semantics into the knowledge discovery process for the new e-geoscience paradigm A. Krishna Sinha	165
14.	Global Map: International cooperation in the mapping sciences D.R. Fraser Taylor	183