期刊
ISPRS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEO-INFORMATION
卷 7, 期 3, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi7030090
关键词
artificial neural networks; geospatial data; similarity; metadata; intrinsic characteristics; combination
资金
- Branch Center Project of Geography, Resources and Ecology of Knowledge Center for Chinese Engineering Sciences and Technology [CKCEST-2017-1-8]
- National Earth System Science Data Sharing Infrastructure [2005DKA32300]
- Multidisciplinary Joint Scientific Expedition Project in International Economic Corridor Across China, Mongolia and Russia [2017FY101300]
- Construction Project of Ecological Risk Assessment and Basic Geographic Information Database of International Economic Corridor Across China, Mongolia and Russia [131A11KYSB20160091]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41631177]
To help users discover the most relevant spatial datasets in the ever-growing global spatial data infrastructures (SDIs), a number of similarity measures of geospatial data based on metadata have been proposed. Researchers have assessed the similarity of geospatial data according to one or more characteristics of the geospatial data. They created different similarity algorithms for each of the selected characteristics and then combined these elementary similarities to the overall similarity of the geospatial data. The existing combination methods are mainly linear and may not be the most accurate. This paper reports our experiences in attempting to learn the optimal non-linear similarity integration functions, from the knowledge of experts, using an artificial neural network. First, a multiple-layer feed forward neural network (MLFFN) was created. Then, the intrinsic characteristics were used to represent the metadata of geospatial data and the similarity algorithms for each of the intrinsic characteristics were built. The training and evaluation data of MLFFN were derived from the knowledge of domain experts. Finally, the MLFFN was trained, evaluated, and compared with traditional linear combination methods, which was mainly a weighted sum. The results show that our method outperformed the existing methods in terms of precision. Moreover, we found that the combination of elementary similarities of experts to the overall similarity of geospatial data was not linear.
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