Book Chapter

Modeling geospatial events and impacts through qualitative change

Inga Mau, Kathleen Stewart Hornsby, Ian D Bishop

Lecture Notes in Computer Science | SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLIN | Published : 2007

Abstract

This paper presents a qualitative formal framework to model the impact of an event. An event could be a forest fire or a flood, for example, that results in a discernable change such as a reduced vegetation height. This framework provides a qualitative classification of impacts in order to reason about events and their impacts. The underlying conceptual model distinguishes between immediate and delayed impacts. Based on this distinction, a set of basic types of impacts are differentiated, in particular abrupt and gradual impacts. We analyze how the temporal relation between an event and an impact can be used to capture combinations of impact types, called evolving impacts. To link event-impa..

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Grants

Awarded by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency


Funding Acknowledgements

Kathleen Stewart Hornsbys research is supported by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under research grants HM1582-05-1-2039 and NMA201-00-1-2009. Inga Maus work is funded by a Melbourne Research Scholarship (MRS) of the University of Melbourne. Special thanks go to Terry Coates of the Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne and the Royal Botanic Gardens Board Victoria for providing the vegetationdata.