1. Summary

This theme deals with information about space such as geographic information. Topics are as follows.

Geometric Correction

Data that observe the earth should be georeferenced, or aligned to the actual location on the earth. We develop a system for georeferencing satellite images or historical maps.

• Digital Typhoon - satellite imagery
• Silk Road Maps - historical map
• Beijing Maps - historical map

Geo Tagging

Text that describe the earth should be georeferenced, or linked to the actual location on the earth. We develop a system for mapping natural language text by analyzing geographic named entities in text.

• GeoNLP Project

WebGIS

We build geographic information systems or websites to show and search earth-related data.

• Digital Typhoon Google Earth Version - Digital Typhoon
• Silk Road Maps - Digital Silk Road
• Beijing Maps - Digital Silk Road
• Isewan Typhoon Storm Tide Database - Vertical Earth
• Seiyou Status - DIAS Project
• 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake Archives

Representation Learning

We analyze the location of geographic features using deep learning-based representation learning.

• Electrical Japan

2. References (Complete List)

1. Asanobu KITAMOTO, Takeshi SAGARA, Masatoshi ARIKAWA, "GeoNLP: Toward Intelligent Geo-Tagging for Natural Language Text", CSIS Days 2011, No. D10, 2011-11 (in Japanese) [ Abstract ]