Spatio-Temporal Databases
Subtitle: Flexible Querying and Reasoning
By: edited by Rita Caluwe, Guy Tré, Gloria Bordogna
Contributors: Tré, Guy; Bordogna, Gloria
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9783642060700; 9783662099681
Subjects: Geography; Engineering mathematics; Geographical information systems; Database management
Description: Spatio-Temporal Databases explores recent trends in flexible querying and reasoning about time- and space-related information in databases. It shows how flexible querying enhances standard querying expressiveness in many different ways, with the aim of facilitating extraction of relevant data and information. Flexible spatial and temporal reasoning denotes qualitative reasoning about dynamic changes in the spatial domain, characterized by imprecision or uncertainty (or both). Many of the contributions focus on GIS, while some others are more general, or focus on related application fields, presenting theoretical viewpoints and techniques that are inspiring or can be adapted for GIS. The first part bundles the contributions on advances at the theoretical level, also discussing examples and opening further perspectives. The second part presents contributions on well-developed applications. The authors explain how to handle imprecision and uncertainty, demonstrating how advanced techniques can help to solve diverse problems related to GIS.
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Table of contents: title: Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases; title: Theory: Fuzzy Sets for Representing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in GIS Databases; Toward Spatio-Temporal Patterns; Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases; A Declarative Framework for Reasoning on Spatio-Temporal Data; Representing and Querying Imperfect Spatio-Temporal Information in an Object-Based Framework; The Applicability of Generalized Constraints in Spatio-Temporal Database Modelling and Querying; An Error Tolerant Parser for Natural Language Queries in GISs; An MPEG-7 Based Video Database Management System; Modeling Spatial Objects Affected by Uncertainty; Fuzzy Minimum Bounding Rectangles; Fuzzy Spatial Data Types and Predicates; title: Applications: A Possibility-Based Model to Index Remote Sensing Images; Vague Geographical Knowledge Management - A Flow-Chart Based Application to Spatial Information Analysis; Fuzzy Classifications in Large Geographical Databases; Image-Based Change Detection of Geographic Information Using Spatial Constraints; Noise Annoyance Mapping.