From expert knowledge to formal ontologies for semantic interpretation of the urban environment from satellite images

  • Authors:
  • François de Bertrand de Beuvron;Stella Marc-Zwecker;Anne Puissant;Cecilia Zanni-Merk

  • Affiliations:
  • ICUBE, BFO Team, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;ICUBE, BFO Team, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;Environment Laboratory, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France;ICUBE, BFO Team, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Knowledge-based and Intelligent Engineering Systems - Selected papers of KES2012-Part 1 of 2
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The widespread introduction of satellite imagery with several spatial, spectral and temporal resolutions is a real opportunity to analyze and characterize the urban environment. These last few years, the Object-Based Image Analysis OBIA approach has been largely developed and applied for urban applications. However, a major issue in this approach is domain knowledge formalization and exploitation. In this paper, after a detailed presentation of related works in the domain of semantic interpretation using ontologies, a taxonomy of urban objects and a framework to describe urban objects and their spatial organization is presented. This taxonomy is then formalized in a domain ontology using the semantic web ontology language and rules OWL and SWRL.