Spatial Data Types for Database Systems Finite Resolution Geometry for Geographic Information Systems /

• Main Author: Schneider, Markus (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
• Edition: 1st ed. 1997.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1288
• Subjects: Signal processing.; Image processing.; Speech processing systems.; Optical data processing.; Database management.; Geographical information systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Application software.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Image Processing and Computer Vision.; Database Management.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Data Structures.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).
• Physical Description: XV, 281 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540695516
• ISSN: 0302-9743 ;
• DOI: 10.1007/BFb0028319

Database research in the last decade has increasingly focused on providing support for non-standard applications. One important domain is representation and processing of spatial information, needed, e.g., in geographical information systems. Spatial data types provide a fundamental abstraction for modeling the structure of geometric entities, their relationships, properties and operations. This monograph is an extensive survey of this field and introduces a new, general, sophisticated framework for the formal definition and robust implementation of spatial data types.