10.1007/3-540-45424-1_32
https://zenodo.org/records/3832957
oai:zenodo.org:3832957
Camara, Gilberto
Gilberto
Camara
0000-0002-3681-487X
INPE (National Institute for Space Research), Brazil
Egenhofer, Max
Max
Egenhofer
0000-0002-2113-6164
University of Maine
Fonseca, Fred
Fred
Fonseca
Penn State University
Monteiro, Miguel
Miguel
Monteiro
INPE (National Institute for Space Research), Brazil
What's in an image?
Zenodo
2001
Ontology, Remote sensing, Domain Ontology, Geographic information systems, Remote Sensing Image Object Configuration Design
2001-09-19
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This paper discusses the ontological status of remote sensing images, from a GIScience perspective. We argue that images have a dual nature—they are fields at the measurement level and fiat objects at the classification level—and that images have an ontological description of their own, distinct and independent from the domain ontology a domain scientist uses. This paper proposes a multi-level ontology for images, combining both field and objectapproaches and distinguishing between image and user ontologies. The framework developed contributes to the design of a new generation of integrated GISs, since two key benefits are achieved: (1) the support for multiple perspectives for the same image and (2) an emphasis on using images for the detection of spatial-temporal configurations of geographicphenomena.