Integrating Forestry and Local Administrative Data Using Semantic and GIS Technologies

• DOI: 10.1111/tgis.13299
• Publication Date: 2025-01-15T07:00:26Z
• Authors: Natalia Crespo‐Lera; Guillermo Vega‐Go...; José M. Giménez‐G...; Cristina Mayo Sar...; Felipe Bravo; Irene Ruano

ABSTRACT Linking National Forest Inventory (NFI) data with local administrative units (LAUs) unlocks a wealth of benefits for forest management. It enhances precision in assessments, facilitates policy alignment, optimizes resource allocation, and enables effective monitoring research at the level. This study presents an automated process to convert official Spanish municipality geometries from Geographic Institute's geospatial database into Linked Open Data (LOD) format. assignment NFI plots their corresponding municipalities using GeoSPARQL publication open LOD repository. Additionally, we compared results this GIS‐based solution. To demonstrate potential spatial integration, conducted analyses two case studies. work highlights integrating information other cross‐domain Semantic Web technologies, which can be further complemented by GIS software analysis.