Conference presentation
Conceptual gateways to bridge the gap between questions asked through spatial analysis using natural and machine languages
GIScience 2018 Workshop on Core Computations on Spatial Information (Melbourne, Australia, 28-Aug-2018)
Centre for Spatial Studies
2018
Abstract
Spatial analysis, also referred as geospatial analysis, geographical information systems (GIS) analysis and geoprocessing is the way to examine events, patterns and processes that operate on or near the surface of the earth (De Smith, Goodchild, & Longley, 2018). Spatial analysis is well recognised to transform and manipulate spatial data sets to extract information for decision making as well as for scientific discoveries. The main aim of spatial analysis is to get information about a phenomenon operating at a location. With today's technological trend the number of tools for spatial analysis is increasing (Scheider, Ballatore, & Lemmens, 2018). On one hand, spatial analysis is described as the core of the GIS (Hofer, Mäs, Brauner, & Bernard, 2017), while on the other hand spatial analysis is also characterised as the most abused subsystem within GIS mainly due to lack of understanding the nature of spatial data sets (DeMers, 2008). A simple explanation of spatial analysis will be "answering questions through the interaction of geospatial tools with spatial data sets". However, answering questions with spatial analysis tools is a complex process because current spatial platforms are not capable of representing questions in machine readable form (Scheider, et al., 2018). For achieving a match between questions asked in natural language and machine-readable language, it is imperative to consider conceptual gateways for understanding spatial data sets as well as tools.
Details
- Title
- Conceptual gateways to bridge the gap between questions asked through spatial analysis using natural and machine languages
- Authors
- Sanjeev K Srivastava (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
- Additional notes
- Position paper presented in the GIScience 2018 Workshop on Core Computations on Spatial Information.
- Conference details
- GIScience 2018 Workshop on Core Computations on Spatial Information (Melbourne, Australia, 28-Aug-2018)
- Publisher
- Centre for Spatial Studies
- Date published
- 2018
- Organisation Unit
- School of Science and Engineering - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Science, Technology and Engineering; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451490602621
- Output Type
- Conference presentation
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