标题: A Semantic Registry Method Using Sensor Metadata Ontology to Manage Heterogeneous Sensor Information in the Geospatial Sensor Web

作者: Xiao, CJ (Xiao, Changjiang); Chen, NC (Chen, Nengcheng); Wang, XL (Wang, Xiaolei); Chen, ZQ (Chen, Zeqiang)

来源出版物: ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION 卷: 5 期: 5 DOI: 10.3390/ijgi5050063 出版年: MAY 2016

摘要: Efficient information management and precise discovery of heterogeneous sensors in the Geospatial Sensor Web (GSW) are a major challenge. Intelligent sensor management requires a registry service to store and process sensor information efficiently. In this paper, we propose a Sensor Metadata Ontology (SMO) to achieve a unified semantic description for heterogeneous sensors that is used to express sensor semantics. Through mapping between the sensor registry information model and the SMO, the sensor metadata could be stored with semantic information for the registry. The framework of a Sensor Semantic Registry Service (SSRS) has been successfully implemented for the registration and discovery of heterogeneous sensors. The results of GEOSENSOR-SSRS experiments show that the proposed semantic registry method can be used to enable sharing in an open distributed sensor network as well as to promote accuracy and efficiency of discovery.