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GIS
2006
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Filtering with raster signatures
Efficient evaluation of spatial queries is an important issue in spatial database. Among spatial operations, spatial join is very useful, intersection being the most common predic...
Leonardo Guerreiro Azevedo, Ralf Hartmut Güti...
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Close pair queries in moving object databases
Databases of moving objects are important for air traffic control, ground traffic, and battlefield configurations. We introduce the (historical and spatial) range close-pair query...
Panfeng Zhou, Donghui Zhang, Betty Salzberg, Gene ...
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Improving the R*-tree with outlier handling techniques
The R*-tree, as a state-of-the-art spatial index, has already found its way into commercial systems like Oracle. In this paper, we aim at improving query performance of the R*tree...
Tian Xia, Donghui Zhang
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
Use of rational numbers in the design of robust geometric primitives for three-dimensional spatial database systems
A necessary step in the implementation of three-dimensional spatial data types for spatial database systems and GIS is the development of robust geometric primitives. The authors ...
Brian E. Weinrich, Markus Schneider
GIS
2005
ACM
16 years 8 months ago
ASPEN: an adaptive spatial peer-to-peer network
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are increasingly managing very large sets of data and hence a centralized data repository may not always provide the most scalable solution. H...
Haojun Wang, Roger Zimmermann, Wei-Shinn Ku