SWEET Ontologies

Rob RaskinNASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Pasadena, CA

Semantic Web for Earth and Semantic Web for Earth and Environmental Terminology Environmental Terminology (SWEET)(SWEET)

Concept space written in OWL-DLConcept space written in OWL-DL Serves as middle-to-upper level ontology for Earth Serves as middle-to-upper level ontology for Earth

system science and geospatial applicationssystem science and geospatial applications Enables Enables scalablescalable classificationclassification of associated data and of associated data and

applicationsapplications Current version contains 6600 concepts that can be Current version contains 6600 concepts that can be

combined to fit various end user needscombined to fit various end user needs 200 modular ontologies200 modular ontologies

SWEET Top-Level ViewSWEET 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

ResourcesResources

SWEET ontology 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.govRob Raskin raskin@jpl.nasa.gov