Geospatial Reasoning with Shapefiles for Supporting Policy Decisions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.04771v1
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2021 02:19:01 GMT
• Title: Geospatial Reasoning with Shapefiles for Supporting Policy Decisions
• Authors: Henrique Santos, James P. McCusker, Deborah L. McGuinness
• Abstract summary: We present an approach to transform data from geospatial datasets into Linked Data using the OWL, PROV-O, and GeoSPARQL standards. We apply our approach to location-sensitive radio spectrum policies to identify relationships between radio transmitters coordinates and policy-regulated regions in Census.gov datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Policies are authoritative assets that are present in multiple domains to support decision-making. They describe what actions are allowed or recommended when domain entities and their attributes satisfy certain criteria. It is common to find policies that contain geographical rules, including distance and containment relationships among named locations. These locations' polygons can often be found encoded in geospatial datasets. We present an approach to transform data from geospatial datasets into Linked Data using the OWL, PROV-O, and GeoSPARQL standards, and to leverage this representation to support automated ontology-based policy decisions. We applied our approach to location-sensitive radio spectrum policies to identify relationships between radio transmitters coordinates and policy-regulated regions in Census.gov datasets. Using a policy evaluation pipeline that mixes OWL reasoning and GeoSPARQL, our approach implements the relevant geospatial relationships, according to a set of requirements elicited by radio spectrum domain experts.

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