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).

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...

Table of Contents:

• Spatial data types - A survey
• Realms: A foundation for spatial data types in database systems
• Realm-based spatial data types: The ROSE algebra
• Efficient algorithms for realm-based spatial data types
• Implementing concepts: Realm system and ROSE system
• Conclusions, open problems, and future work.