An Ontology of the Submarine Relief for Analysis and Representation on Nautical Charts
dc.contributor.author | YAN, Jingya |
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hal.structure.identifier | GUILBERT, Eric
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dc.contributor.author
hal.structure.identifier | SAUX, Eric
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dc.date.accessioned | 2014 |
dc.date.available | 2015 |
dc.date.issued | 2013 |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 |
dc.identifier.issn | 0008-7041 |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10985/8757 |
dc.description.abstract | A nautical chart is a kind of map used to describe the seafloor morphology and shoreline of adjacent lands. One of its main purposes is to guaranty safety of navigation. As a consequence, construction of a nautical chart follows very specific rules. The cartographer has to select and highlight undersea features according to their relevance to navigation. In an automated process, the system must be able to identify and classify these features from the terrain model. This paper aims therefore at defining ontologies of the submarine relief and nautical chart that will be at the root of a model-oriented generalisation process. To the best of our knowledge, no ontology has been defined to formalize the geographical and cartographic objects for nautical chart representation. Thus, a bottom-up approach was developed to extract and model knowledge derived from standards established by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) and cartographers’ expertise. The submarine relief ontology formalizes undersea features describing the submarine relief. Four concepts (composition, morphometric class, shape value and depth value) are introduced to describe properties and relationships between undersea features. The cartographic representation ontology of nautical chart will define several concepts (chart, features, isobathymetric lines and soundings) for the representation of undersea features on the chart. |
dc.description.sponsorship | We are grateful to the Service Hydrographique et Oceno-graphique de la Marine (Brest, France) for their nautical documents and for their assistance and expertise in this study. This work was funded by the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (grant PolyU 5172/08E), the Consulate General of France in Hong Kong and the Region Bretagne in France under grant 0211/ARE 09011/00026102 |
dc.language.iso | en |
dc.publisher | Maney Publishing |
dc.rights | Post-print |
dc.subject | Ontology |
dc.subject | Nautical chart |
dc.subject | Submarine relief |
dc.subject | Representation |
dc.subject | Undersea features |
dc.title | An Ontology of the Submarine Relief for Analysis and Representation on Nautical Charts |
ensam.embargo.terms | 1 Year |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1743277413Y.0000000050 |
dc.typdoc | Article dans une revue avec comité de lecture |
dc.localisation | Centre de Paris |
dc.subject.hal | Informatique: Modélisation et simulation |
ensam.audience | Internationale |
ensam.page | 1-10 |
ensam.journal | Cartographic Journal |
hal.status | unsent |