BIM-GIS INTEGRATED GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION MODEL USING SEMANTIC WEB AND RDF GRAPHS
In recent years, 3D virtual indoor/outdoor urban modelling becomes a key spatial information framework for many civil and engineering applications such as evacuation planning, emergency and facility management. For accomplishing such sophisticate decision tasks, there is a large demands for building...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2016-06-01
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| Series: | ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.isprs-ann-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/III-4/73/2016/isprs-annals-III-4-73-2016.pdf |
| Summary: | In recent years, 3D virtual indoor/outdoor urban modelling becomes a key spatial information framework for many civil and
engineering applications such as evacuation planning, emergency and facility management. For accomplishing such sophisticate
decision tasks, there is a large demands for building multi-scale and multi-sourced 3D urban models. Currently, Building Information
Model (BIM) and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) are broadly used as the modelling sources. However, data sharing and
exchanging information between two modelling domains is still a huge challenge; while the syntactic or semantic approaches do not
fully provide exchanging of rich semantic and geometric information of BIM into GIS or vice-versa. This paper proposes a novel
approach for integrating BIM and GIS using semantic web technologies and Resources Description Framework (RDF) graphs. The
novelty of the proposed solution comes from the benefits of integrating BIM and GIS technologies into one unified model, so-called
Integrated Geospatial Information Model (IGIM). The proposed approach consists of three main modules: BIM-RDF and GIS-RDF
graphs construction, integrating of two RDF graphs, and query of information through IGIM-RDF graph using SPARQL. The IGIM
generates queries from both the BIM and GIS RDF graphs resulting a semantically integrated model with entities representing both
BIM classes and GIS feature objects with respect to the target-client application. The linkage between BIM-RDF and GIS-RDF is
achieved through SPARQL endpoints and defined by a query using set of datasets and entity classes with complementary properties,
relationships and geometries. To validate the proposed approach and its performance, a case study was also tested using IGIM
system design. |
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| ISSN: | 2194-9042 2194-9050 |