The GeoSpace Body of Knowledge
The GeoSpace BoK extends the original Body of Knowledge (BoK) of Earth Observation and Geo-information, developed in the EO4GEO (and previous) projects towards the space downstream sector. To this end, three new knowledge areas, with their respective concepts, have been included: GNSS, Satellite Communication and Satellite Systems.
The Body of Knowledge is essentially a hierarchical knowledge graph, whereby nodes are concepts and edges are sub/superconcept relations that define the hierarchy. As such, the highest level concepts represent areas of knowledge and are broken down into more detailed concepts. Other relationships between concepts are also defined (similar as, prerequisite, postrequisite). Each concept has a permanent URL to easily and uniformly refer to it, a description, relationships to other concepts and associated skills. Versioning and an advanced search is available to search in concepts and their fields.
Use the BoK Visualization and Search tool to navigate and visualize the Body of Knowledge in a graphical and textual way.
The GeoSpace BoK in a nutshell.
A shared, common vocabulary for Geo-Science and the Space downstream sector.
Reflects the evolving fields of Geo-information, Earth Observation, Positioning Navigation and Timing, and Satellite Communication.
Based on expert contributions.
Kept up to date through regular update cycles.
The GeoSpace Body of Knowledge content is licensed by the SPACE4GEO Alliance under CC BY-SA 4.0. Copyright by the authors.
