Linked Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Data

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Kauppinen, Tomi^; | de Espindola, Giovana Mira | Jones, Jim | Sánchez, Alber | Gräler, Benedikt | Bartoschek, Thomas

Affiliations: Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany | Earth System Science Center, National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Brazil

Note: [] Corresponding author. E-mail: tomi.kauppinen@aalto.fi.

Abstract: The Linked Brazilian Amazon Rainforest Data contains observations about deforestation of rainforests and related things such as rivers, road networks, population, amount of cattle, and market prices of agricultural products. The Linked Data approach offers thus to combine ecological, economical and social dimensions together. Our aim has been to 1) dramatically shorten the time needed to collect information for a research setting concerning the Brazilian Amazon, and 2) via the linkage between datasets enable novel types of transdisciplinary research for the scientific community.

Keywords: Brazilian Amazon, Linked Open Data, deforestation, spatio-temporal datasets

DOI: 10.3233/SW-130113

Journal: Semantic Web, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 151-155, 2014