Spatial databases technologies, techniques and trends /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Manolopoulos, Yannis, 1957-, Papadopoulos, Apostolos N., Vassilakopoulos, Michael Gr.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
• Subjects: Database management.; Geographic information systems.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xv, 340 p. : ill. (some col.)) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781591403890 (PDF); 1591403898 (PDF)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This title introduces the reader to the world of spatial databases, and related subtopics. The broad range of topics covered within the chapters includes spatial data modeling, indexing of spatial and spatiotemporal objects, data mining and knowledge discovery in spatial and spatiotemporal management issues and query processing for moving objects. The reader will be able to get in touch with several important research issues the research community is dealing with today.