ABSTRACT
ABSTRACT: Disaster managers need spatial data for managing disaster efficiently. Often the required spatial data are distributed and heterogeneous, and several data sources need to be combined in order to derive the information. This is accomplished with ontologies by the use of semantic web technologies. Although disaster ontologies are being developed in a variety of domains, literature shows that there is still considerable gap in earthquake domain. Besides, disaster ontologies handle only non-spatial data and lack geographical query and reasoning capabilities. In this paper we propose a disaster geo-ontology for earthquake domain. For this purpose we conceptualized earthquake and disaster management terms, designed ontology, and integrated spatial operations into ontology by using geo-ontology as upper-level. Finally we discussed viability of geo-ontology on a disaster management case in earthquake domain.
