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Main Authors: Stephen, Shirly, Faulk, Mitchell, Janowicz, Krzysztof, Fisher, Colby, Thelen, Thomas, Zhu, Rui, Hitzler, Pascal, Shimizu, Cogan, Currier, Kitty, Schildhauer, Mark, Rehberger, Dean, Wang, Zhangyu, Christou, Antrea
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14808
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author Stephen, Shirly
Faulk, Mitchell
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Fisher, Colby
Thelen, Thomas
Zhu, Rui
Hitzler, Pascal
Shimizu, Cogan
Currier, Kitty
Schildhauer, Mark
Rehberger, Dean
Wang, Zhangyu
Christou, Antrea
author_facet Stephen, Shirly
Faulk, Mitchell
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Fisher, Colby
Thelen, Thomas
Zhu, Rui
Hitzler, Pascal
Shimizu, Cogan
Currier, Kitty
Schildhauer, Mark
Rehberger, Dean
Wang, Zhangyu
Christou, Antrea
contents Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs) have become integral to the growing field of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. Initiatives like the U.S. National Science Foundation's Open Knowledge Network program aim to create an ecosystem of nation-scale, cross-disciplinary GeoKGs that provide AI-ready geospatial data aligned with FAIR principles. However, building this infrastructure presents key challenges, including 1) managing large volumes of data, 2) the computational complexity of discovering topological relations via SPARQL, and 3) conflating multi-scale raster and vector data. Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) help tackle these issues by offering efficient data integration and representation strategies. The KnowWhereGraph utilizes Google's S2 Geometry -- a DGGS framework -- to enable efficient multi-source data processing, qualitative spatial querying, and cross-graph integration. This paper outlines the implementation of S2 within KnowWhereGraph, emphasizing its role in topologically enriching and semantically compressing data. Ultimately, this work demonstrates the potential of DGGS frameworks, particularly S2, for building scalable GeoKGs.
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spellingShingle The S2 Hierarchical Discrete Global Grid as a Nexus for Data Representation, Integration, and Querying Across Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
Stephen, Shirly
Faulk, Mitchell
Janowicz, Krzysztof
Fisher, Colby
Thelen, Thomas
Zhu, Rui
Hitzler, Pascal
Shimizu, Cogan
Currier, Kitty
Schildhauer, Mark
Rehberger, Dean
Wang, Zhangyu
Christou, Antrea
Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs) have become integral to the growing field of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. Initiatives like the U.S. National Science Foundation's Open Knowledge Network program aim to create an ecosystem of nation-scale, cross-disciplinary GeoKGs that provide AI-ready geospatial data aligned with FAIR principles. However, building this infrastructure presents key challenges, including 1) managing large volumes of data, 2) the computational complexity of discovering topological relations via SPARQL, and 3) conflating multi-scale raster and vector data. Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) help tackle these issues by offering efficient data integration and representation strategies. The KnowWhereGraph utilizes Google's S2 Geometry -- a DGGS framework -- to enable efficient multi-source data processing, qualitative spatial querying, and cross-graph integration. This paper outlines the implementation of S2 within KnowWhereGraph, emphasizing its role in topologically enriching and semantically compressing data. Ultimately, this work demonstrates the potential of DGGS frameworks, particularly S2, for building scalable GeoKGs.
title The S2 Hierarchical Discrete Global Grid as a Nexus for Data Representation, Integration, and Querying Across Geospatial Knowledge Graphs
topic Artificial Intelligence
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.14808