Abstract

Much of the work on information integration has focused on the dynamic integration of structured data sources, such as databases or XML data. With the more complex geospatial data types, such as imagery, maps, and vector data, researchers have focused on the integration of specific types of information, such as placing points or vectors on maps, but much of this integration is only partially automated. With the huge amount of geospatial data now available and the enormous amount of data available on the Web, there is a terrific opportunity to exploit the integration of online sources with geospatial sources for knowledge discovery. The challenge is that the dynamic integration of online data and geospatial data is beyond the state of the art of existing integration systems. There are two general challenges that must be addressed in order to fully exploit the combination of these different types of sources. First …

Date

November 18, 2003

Authors

Craig A Knoblock, Cyrus Shahabi, John P Wilson

Journal

Unpublished White Paper Prepared for University Consortium for Geographic Information Science Geospatial Visualization and Knowledge Discovery Workshop, Washington, DC