Spatial databases technologies, techniques and trends /

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 managemen...

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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.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Survey on spatial data modelling approaches / Jose R. Rios Viqueira, Nikos A. Lorentzos, Nieves R. Brisaboa
  • 2. Integrating Web data and geographic knowledge into spatial databases / Alberto H.F. Laender, Karla A.V. Borges, Joyce C.P. Carvalho, Claudia B. Medeiros, Altigran S. da Silva, Clodoveu A. Davis Jr.
  • 3. Object-relational spatial indexing / Hans-Peter Kriegel, Martin Pfeifle, Marco Pötke, Thomas Seidl, Jost Enderle
  • 4. Quadtree-based image representation and retrieval / Maude Manouvrier, Marta Rukoz, Geneviève Jomier
  • 5. Indexing multi-dimensional trajectories for similarity queries / Michail Vlachos, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, Eamonn Keogh, Dimitrios Gunopulos
  • 6. Approximate computation of distance-based queries / Antonio Corral, Michael Vassilakopoulos
  • 7. Spatial joins : algorithms, cost models and optimization techniques / Nikos Mamoulis, Yannis Theodoridis, Dimitris Papadias
  • 8. Applications of moving objects databases / Ouri Wolfson, Eduardo Mena
  • 9. Simple and incremental nearest-neighbor search in spatio-temporal databases / Katerina Raptopoulou, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, Yannis Manolopoulos
  • 10. Management of large moving objects databases : indexing, benchmarking and uncertainty in movement representation / Talel Abdessalem, Cédric du Mouza, José Moreira, Philippe Rigaux
  • 11. Spatio-temporal prediction using data mining tools / Margaret H. Dunham, Nathaniel Ayewah, Zhigang Li, Kathryn Bean, Jie Huang
  • 12. Mining in spatio-temporal databases / Junmei Wang, Wynne Hsu, Mong Li Lee
  • 13. Similarity learning in GIS : an overview of definitions, prerequisites and challenges / Giorgos Mountrakis, Peggy Agouris, Anthony Stefanidis.