Towards Visual Exploration Of Semantically Enriched Remote Sensing Scene Knowledge Graphs (RSS-KGs)

There has been an increase in the adoption of Linked Data and subsequently representing data in the form of knowledge graphs across a wide spectrum of domains. There has also been significant interest in the remote sensing community to publish Earth Observation data in the form of Linked Data. As the geospatial Linked Data cloud on the internet grows, there arises a need for efficient methods of exploratory analysis of such information-rich geospatial knowledge graphs. Knowledge graph representation of remote sensing scenes has proved to add significant value for effective mining of implicit information in addition to seamless integration with other data sources. This work is geared towards visual exploration of semantically enriched Remote Sensing Scene Knowledge Graphs (RSS-KGs). In this paper, we propose and implement an interactive web-based interface to visually explore and interact with RSS-KGs using Cesium. The proposed interface seeks to visualize the know ledge graph in the form of nodes and edges, mapped over the remote sensing scene consisting of different land use land cover regions and their inferred characteristics in addition to their spatial relationships with one another. It is envisaged that visualization in the form of nodes and edges would aid in visually validating the spatial relations in the knowledge graph, thus enhancing the understanding of the geospatial knowledge graph from the end user perspective. We demonstrate the efficacy of the interface through the visual exploration of an enriched geospatial knowledge graph of a remote sensing scene captured during an urban flood event.