Spatial Data Management

ISBN-10: 1608458326
ISBN-13: 9781608458325
Category: Computers
Pages: 133
Language: English
Published: 2011-12
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Author: Nikos Mamoulis

Description

Spatial database management deals with the storage, indexing, and querying of data with spatial features, such as location and geometric extent. Many applications require the efficient management of spatial data, including Geographic Information Systems, Computer Aided Design, and Location Based Services. The goal of this book is to provide the reader with an overview of spatial data management technology, with an emphasis on indexing and search techniques. It first introduces spatial data models and queries and discusses the main issues of extending a database system to support spatial data. It presents indexing approaches for spatial data, with a focus on the R-tree. Query evaluation and optimization techniques for the most popular spatial query types (selections, nearest neighbor search, and spatial joins) are portrayed for data in Euclidean spaces and spatial networks. The book concludes by demonstrating the ample application of spatial data management technology on a wide range of related application domains: management of spatio-temporal data and high-dimensional feature vectors, multi-criteria ranking, data mining and OLAP, privacy-preserving data publishing, and spatial keyword search. Table of Contents: Introduction / Spatial Data / Indexing / Spatial Query Evaluation / Spatial Networks / Applications of Spatial Data Management Technology

Get the book

Similar books

Spatial Database Systems: Design, Implementation and Project Management
By Albert K.W. Yeung, G. Brent Hall
Hunter, G.J., Wachowicz, M. and Bregt, A.K. (2003) “Understanding Spatial Data Usability”, Data Science Journal, Vol. ... for Making GIS Available to Community Organizations: dimensions of difference and appropriateness, in Craig, W., ...
Spatial Databases: With Application to GIS
By Agnes Voisard, Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl
The authors explore and explain current techniques for handling the specialised data that describes geographical phenomena in a study that will be of great value to computer scientists and geographers working with spatial databases.
Spatial Data on Water: Geospatial Technologies and Data Management
By Hassane Jarar Oulidi
Spatial Data on Water: Geospatial Technologies and Data Management focuses on the worldwide corroborated difficulties in accessing data, a major hindrance in conducting water related studies in several domains.
Spatial Data Infrastructures in Context: North and South
By Joep Crompvoets, Zorica Nedović-Budić, Yola Georgiadou
... 2001, Geographic Information Technology in Local Government: Experience and Issues. The Municipal Year Book 2001. Washington, DC: International City/County Management Association. Harvey, F., 2001a, Constructing GIS: Actor Networks of ...
Spatial Data on the Web: Modeling and Management
By Elena Ferrari, Barbara Catania, Alberto Belussi
Cecconi and Weibel [10] describe a framework for map generalization to be applied for on-demand Web mapping. ... Since on-the-fly generation applies only to a small number of objects instead of the entire map, this approach is ...
Spatial Databases: A Tour
By Shashi Shekhar, Sanjay Chawla
This book by leading experts in the field provides readers with a wide range of applications and methods for spatial database management systems, and allows readers to...
Spatial Data Quality
By Peter Fisher, Michael F. Goodchild, Wenzhong Shi
Theoretical frameworks on resolution have also been defined by Worboys (Stell and Worboys, 1998), (see also Skogan and Fimland, 2000). These are not included in this chapter, which focuses on a presentation of experimental problems.
Spatial Database for GPS Wildlife Tracking Data: A Practical Guide to Creating a Data Management System with PostgreSQL/PostGIS and R
By Ferdinando Urbano, Francesca Cagnacci
This book guides animal ecologists, biologists and wildlife and data managers through a step-by-step procedure to build their own advanced software platforms to manage and process wildlife tracking data.
Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey
By National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources
Advancing Strategic Science: A Spatial Data Infrastructure Roadmap for the U.S. Geological Survey is intended to ground those efforts by providing a practical roadmap to full implementation of an SDI to enable the USGS to conduct strategic ...
GIS for Environmental Applications: A practical approach
By Xuan Zhu
example, Wang (1996) proposed an algorithm which applies shape recognition techniques to identify bends along a line or polygon, analyse their geometric properties and remove extraneous ones. A line feature can be viewed as a series of ...