Users often do not require a complete answer to their query but rather only a sample. They expect the sample to be either the largest possible or the most representative (or both)...
The basic concept for processing spatial joins consists of two steps: First, the spatial join is performed on the minimum bounding rectangles of the objects by using a spatial acce...
Spatial joins are one of the most important operations for combining spatial objects of several relations. In this paper, spatial join processing is studied in detail for extended...
Thomas Brinkhoff, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Ralf Schneid...