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Table of Contents - Special Paper 482Societal Challenges and GeoinformaticsEdited 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 |
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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 |