The landform reference ontology (LFRO) formalizes ontological distinctions underlying naïve geographic cognition and reasoning about landforms. The LFRO taxonomy is currently based only on form-based distinctions. In this significantly revised version, several new categories have been added to explicate ontological distinctions related to material-spatial dependence and physical support. Nuances of common natural language landform terms and implications for their mapping are discussed.
@InProceedings{sinha_et_al:LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.59, author = {Sinha, Gaurav and Arundel, Samantha T. and Hahmann, Torsten and Usery, E. Lynn and Stewart, Kathleen and Mark, David M.}, title = {{The Landform Reference Ontology (LFRO): A Foundation for Exploring Linguistic and Geospatial Conceptualization of Landforms}}, booktitle = {10th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2018)}, pages = {59:1--59:7}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-083-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2018}, volume = {114}, editor = {Winter, Stephan and Griffin, Amy and Sester, Monika}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.59}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-93873}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.GISCIENCE.2018.59}, annote = {Keywords: landform, reference ontology, terrain reasoning, dependence, support} }
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