Rob Raskin NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA SWEET Ontologies Rob Raskin NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA
Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology (SWEET) Concept space written in OWL-DL Serves as middle-to-upper level ontology for Earth system science and geospatial applications Enables scalable classification of associated data and applications Current version contains 6600 concepts that can be combined to fit various end user needs 200 modular ontologies
SWEET Top-Level View
SWEET Geospatial Ontologies Space (general ideas) Spatial Categories (big, small, etc.) Spatial Coordinates Spatial Direction Spatial Distribution Spatial Extent (height, area, etc.) Spatial Object (0-D, 1-D, 2-D, 3-D) Spatial Relation Spatial Scale (mesoscale, global, etc.)
Spatial Geometry reprSpaceGeometry.owl reprSpaceGeometry3D.owl
Spatial Properties propSpace.owl propSpaceDirection.owl propSpaceDistance.owl propSpaceHeight.owl propSpaceMultidimensional.owl propSpaceThickness.owl
Spatial Representations reprSpace.owl reprSpaceCoordinate.owl reprSpaceReferenceSystem.owl reprSpaceScale.owl
Spatial Relations reprSpaceRelation.owl reprSpaceDirection.owl
Rob Raskin raskin@jpl.nasa.gov Resources SWEET ontology http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov Applications Spatial Decision Support Knowledge Portal http://institute.redlands.edu/sds Noesis ontology-aided search tool http://noesis.itsc.uah.edu Rob Raskin raskin@jpl.nasa.gov