Geospatial semantics is a broad field that involves a variety of research areas. The term semantics and syntactics provides the meaningful structure to the domain where semantics refers to the meaning of things and syntactics depicts the grammatical structure. Geospatial semantics generally refer to the meaning of geographic entities as well as their counterparts in the cognitive and digital world. Geospatial semantics can also enable the effective design of geographic information systems (GIS) by enhancing the interoperability of distributed systems and developing more intelligent interfaces for user interactions.
Our group is involved in major research areas of geospatial semantics studies. They are semantic interoperability, geographic information retrieval, geospatial semantic web and cognitive geographic concepts. Additionally, the group has been actively involved in studying and implementation of projects focusing on geospatial standards.
Related Courses:
- GNR629 Geospatial Standards and Interoperability
- GNR 605 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems