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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