GeoExpert - An Expert System Based Framework for Data Quality in Spatial Databases

• Main Author: Kumar, Aditya
• Format: Others
• Published: TopSCHOLAR® 2006
• Subjects: Computer Sciences; Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/290; http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1293&context=theses

Usage of very large sets of historical spatial data in knowledge discovery process became a common trend, and in order to obtain better results from this knowledge discovery process the data should be of high quality. In this thesis we proposed a framework 'GeoExpert' for data quality assessment and cleansing tool for spatial data that integrates the spatial data visualization and analysis capabilities of the ARCGIS, the reason and inference capability of an expert system. In this thesis we implemented the proposed framework both stand-alone and web versions using ArcGIS Engine and ArcGIS Server, respectively. We used JESS expert system shell for the expert system part of the GeoExpert. Use of expert system shell separates the application logic from the actual framework which makes the framework easily updatable and domain independent. In this thesis we implemented the GeoExpert on the spatially referenced water quality data.