Measurement of semantic similarity for land use and land cover classification systems

Dongpo Deng

doi:10.1117/12.815965

29 December 2008 Measurement of semantic similarity for land use and land cover classification systems

Dongpo Deng

Proceedings Volume 7285, International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis (ICEODPA); 72850J (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.815965
Event: International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis, 2008, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Land use and land cover (LULC) data is essential to environmental and ecological research. However, semantic heterogeneous of land use and land cover classification are often resulted from different data resources, different cultural contexts, and different utilities. Therefore, there is need to develop a method to measure, compare and integrate between land cover categories. To understand the meaning and the use of terminology from different domains, the common ontology approach is used to acquire information regarding the meaning of terms, and to compare two terms to determine how they might be related. Ontology is a formal specification of a shared conceptualization of a domain of interest. LULC classification system is a ontology. The semantic similarity method is used to compare to entities of three LULC classification systems: CORINE (European Environmental Agency), Oregon State (USA), and Taiwan. The semantic properties and relations firstly have been extracted from their definitions of LULC classification systems. Then semantic properties and relations of categories in three LULC classification systems are mutually compared. The visualization of semantic proximity is finally presented to explore the similarity or dissimilarity of data. This study shows the semantic similarity method efficiently detect semantic distance in three LULC classification systems and find out the semantic similar objects.

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Dongpo Deng "Measurement of semantic similarity for land use and land cover classification systems", Proc. SPIE 7285, International Conference on Earth Observation Data Processing and Analysis (ICEODPA), 72850J (29 December 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.815965

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