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Geographic information is inherently spatial and temporal. Geographic applications often demand an integrative approach to examine changes and interactions over space and time. Temporal geographic information systems (GIS) are defined here as GIS capable of incorporating temporality into geospatial databases and enabling spatiotemporal query, analysis, and modeling. Adding time into geospatial databases is a far from trivial task. Currently, commercial or public-domain temporal GIS support cell-based spatial data (i.e., rasters) or spatial data objects with one or restricted sets of simple geometries, mostly point- or line-based data only. Research-grade temporal GIS remain limited to pilot studies or prototypes. While comprehensive...
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Yuan, M. (2016). Temporal GIS and Applications. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-23519-6_1373-2
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