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Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases

First Symposium SSD '89. Santa Barbara, California, July 17/18, 1989. Proceedings

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 409)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. The fieldtree: A data structure for geographic information systems

    • Andrew U. Frank, Renato Barrera
    Pages 29-44
  3. Performance comparison of point and spatial access methods

    • Hans-Peter Kriegel, Michael Schiwietz, Ralf Schneider, Bernhard Seeger
    Pages 89-114
  4. Tiling large geographical databases

    • Michael F. Goodchild
    Pages 135-146
  5. Thematic map modeling

    • Michel Scholl, Agnès Voisard
    Pages 167-190
  6. Hierarchical spatial data structures

    • Hanan Samet
    Pages 191-212
  7. Distributed quadtree processing

    • C. H. Chien, T. Kanade
    Pages 213-232
  8. Node distribution in a PR quadtree

    • Chuan-Heng Ang, Hanan Samet
    Pages 233-252
  9. An object-oriented approach to the design of geographic information systems

    • Peter van Oosterom, Jan van den Bos
    Pages 253-269
  10. A topological data model for spatial databases

    • Max J. Egenhofer, Andrew U. Frank, Jeffrey P. Jackson
    Pages 271-286
  11. The design of pictorial databases based upon the theory of symbolic projections

    • Shi-Kuo Chang, Erland Jungert, Y. Li
    Pages 301-323

About this book

The most recent developments in spatial data management are reported in these proceedings. SSD '89 brought together computer scientists and experts from application areas such as geography, computer vision, robotics, computer-aided manufacturing, and environmental information systems. This proceedings volume includes subjects such as extensible database systems, spatial data structures an index structures, spatial reasoning, geographic information systems, quadtrees, and thematic map modeling.

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