Spatial Data Infrastructures
A special issue of Infrastructures (ISSN 2412-3811).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2020) | Viewed by 7095
Special Issue Editors
Interests: SDI architecture; SDI services; SDI applications; open and distributed systems; spatial data visualization
Interests: development of geospatial ontologies; vocabularies and gazetteers; discovery and indexing of geo Web resources; publication of geo information in the Web of Linked Data
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Interests: photogrammetry; 3D computer vision; remote sensing; machine learning; deep learning; automated interpretation of imagery and point clouds
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In the last two decades, Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) have evolved from concept to reality in most countries around the world. SDIs facilitate the discovery, and provide access to, spatial data and services through open, standardized interfaces and comprehensive metadata.
SDIs have witnessed the development of other approaches to provide access to spatial data and services on the Internet, such as web APIs and open spatial data initiatives. Beyond specific standards, technologies or licenses, SDIs and these initiatives share their infrastructural essence: they intend to provide support to the development of new spatial applications, services and systems on top of them. Because of this shared objective, interconnections among them are currently being proposed, planned, and developed.
In addition to this, the growth of cloud computing and big data, the success of new data sources, such as ubiquitous sensors or drones, the increasing importance of 3D and 4D spatial models, and the requirements of applications, such as smart environments and spatial intelligence systems, are contributing to shape the development of SDIs.
Infrastructures (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/infrastructures) is an international scholarly journal covering all aspects of infrastructure engineering, including information infrastructures. Topics for this Special Issue on “Spatial Data Infrastructures” include, but are not limited to:
SDI components; spatial data, metadata, and technologies:
- Outdoor and indoor positioning.
- Volunteered geographic information (VGI), crowdsourcing and citizen science.
- Data sources: Remote sensing, surveys, UAVs, LiDAR, etc.
- Open, linked data.
- Sensor web, the Internet of Things and wearable devices.
- SDIs in the cloud.
- Geospatial metadata and ontologies.
- Semantic web.
- Integrating mapping and geospatial web APIs and SDIs.
SDI organization and initiatives; best practices, experience reports, and future plans:
- National, regional and global SDI initiatives.
- Thematic SDIs (scientific, environmental, agricultural, educational, etc.).
- Connection to other infrastructures (transportation, energy, water, etc.).
- SDI governance.
- Privacy, security and legal issues.
- SDI evolution and new opportunities.
Use of SDIs:
- Location-based systems.
- Smart environments (cities, territories, transportation systems, etc.)
- Modeling (hazards, risks, economic, social, business, etc.)
- Geospatial decision support systems and geo-intelligence.
- Geospatial education.
- E-Government and geospatial legislation.
- Geospatial big data management and analytics.
- 3D/4D Spatial data visualization and analytics.
- Virtual, mixed and augmented reality applications.
Dr. Rubén Béjar
Dr. Francisco J. Lopez-Pellicer
Dr. Kourosh Khoshelham
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Spatial Data
- Spatial Services
- Geographic Information Systems
- Information Infrastructures
- Metadata
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