Table of Contents

FOUNDATIONS OF THE GEOSPATIAL WEB
01: Towards the Geospatial Web - Media Platforms for Managing Geotagged Knowledge Repositories
02: Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web
03: Imaging on the Geospatial Web Using JPEG 2000
04: What’s so Special about Spatial?

NAVIGATING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB
05: Conceptual Search - Incorporating Geospatial Data into Semantic Queries
06: Location-based Web Search
07: Ubiquitous Browsing of the World
08: Spatiotemporal-Thematic Data Processing for the Semantic Web

BUILDING THE GEOSPATIAL WEB
09: A Semantic Approach for Geospatial Information Extraction from Unstructured Documents
10: Enhancing RSS Feeds with Extracted Geospatial Information for further Processing and Visualization
11: A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation

GEOSPATIAL COMMUNITIES
12: Geospatial Information Integration for Science Activity Planning at the Mars Desert Research Station
13: Inferences of Social and Spatial Communities over the World Wide Web
14: Participating in the Geospatial Web - Collaborative Mapping, Social Networks, and Participatory GIS
15: Sharing, Discovering and Browsing Geotagged Pictures on the World Wide Web
16: Supporting Geo-Semantic Web Communities with the DBin Platform: Use Cases and Perspectives

ENVIRONMENTAL APPLICATIONS
17: A Geospatial Web Platform for Natural Hazard Exposure Assessment in the Insurance Sector
18: Development, Implementation and Application of the WebGIS MossMet
19: European Air Quality Mapping through Interpolation with Application to Exposure and Impact Assessment
20: Introduction to Ubiquitous Cartography and Dynamic Geovisualization with Implications for Disaster and Crisis Management
21: Fire Alerts for the Geospatial Web

GEOSPATIAL SERVICES
22: Geospatial Web Services - The Evolution of Geospatial Data Infrastructure
23: SWING – A Semantic Framework for Geospatial Services
24: Similarity-Based Retrieval for Geospatial Semantic Web Services Specified Using the Web Service Modeling Language (WSML-Core)
25: Geospatial Data Integration with Semantic Web Services: the eMerges Approach

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