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Spatio-Temporal Databases; Trajectory Databases
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Moving objects database systems provide concepts in their data model and data structures in the implementation to represent moving objects, i.e., continuously changing geometries. Two important abstractions are moving point, representing an entity for which only the time dependent position is of interest, and moving region, representing an entity for which also the time dependent shape and extent is relevant. Examples of moving points are cars, trucks, air planes, ships, mobile phone users, RFID equipped goods, or polar bears; examples of moving regions are forest fires, deforestation of the Amazon rain forest, oil spills in the sea, armies, epidemic diseases, hurricanes, and so forth.
There are two flavors of such databases. The first represents information about a set of currently moving objects. Basically, one is interested in efficiently maintaining their location information and asking queries about the current...
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Güting, R.H. (2018). Moving Objects Databases and Tracking. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_223
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