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Geographic information is based on observations or measurements. The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has developed an implementation specification for observations and measurements (O&M). It specifies precisely how to encode information. Yet, the O&M conceptual model does not specify precisely which real-world entities are denoted by the specified information objects. We provide formal semantics for the central O&M terms by aligning them to the foundational ontology DOLCE. The alignment to a foundational ontology restricts the possible interpretations of the central elements in the O&M model and establishes explicit relations between categories of real world entities and classes of information objects. These relations are essential for assessing semantic interoperability between geospatial information sources.
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Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Münster, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, 48149, Münster, Germany
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Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, 5713 Ellison Hall, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Martin Raubal
University of Utah, 84112-9155, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Harvey J. Miller
Vienna University of Technology, 1040, Vienna, Austria
Andrew U. Frank
University of California, 93106-4060, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Michael F. Goodchild
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Probst, F. (2006). Ontological Analysis of Observations and Measurements. In: Raubal, M., Miller, H.J., Frank, A.U., Goodchild, M.F. (eds) Geographic Information Science. GIScience 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4197. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11863939_20
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