Spatio-Temporal Databases: Flexible Querying and Reasoning

✍ Scribed by Rita de Caluwe, Guy de Tré, Gloria Bordogna (auth.), Professor Dr. Rita de Caluwe, Dr. Guy de Tré, Dr. Gloria Bordogna (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 388
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Spatio-Temporal Databases explores recent trends in flexible querying and reasoning about time- and space-related information in databases. It shows how flexible querying enhances standard querying expressiveness in many different ways, with the aim of facilitating extraction of relevant data and information. Flexible spatial and temporal reasoning denotes qualitative reasoning about dynamic changes in the spatial domain, characterized by imprecision or uncertainty (or both). Many of the contributions focus on GIS, while some others are more general, or focus on related application fields, presenting theoretical viewpoints and techniques that are inspiring or can be adapted for GIS. The first part bundles the contributions on advances at the theoretical level, also discussing examples and opening further perspectives. The second part presents contributions on well-developed applications. The authors explain how to handle imprecision and uncertainty, demonstrating how advanced techniques can help to solve diverse problems related to GIS.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Fuzzy Sets for Representing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in GIS Databases....Pages 11-27
Toward Spatio-Temporal Patterns....Pages 29-53
Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases: An Approach Based on User-Defined Aggregates....Pages 55-74
A Declarative Framework for Reasoning on Spatio-Temporal Data....Pages 75-104
Representing and Querying Imperfect Spatio-Temporal Information in an Object-based Framework....Pages 105-125
The Applicability of Generalized Constraints in Spatio-Temporal Database Modelling and Querying....Pages 127-158
An Error Tolerant Parser for Natural Language Queries in GISs....Pages 159-179
An MPEG-7 Based Video Database Management System....Pages 181-210
Modeling Spatial Objects Affected by Uncertainty....Pages 211-236
Fuzzy Minimum Bounding Rectangles....Pages 237-263
Fuzzy Spatial Data Types and Predicates: Their Definition and Integration into Query Languages....Pages 265-293
Front Matter....Pages 295-295
A Possibility-Based Model to Index Remote Sensing Images....Pages 297-313
Vague Geographical Knowledge Management — A Flow-Chart Based Application to Spatial Information Analysis....Pages 315-329
Fuzzy Classifications in Large Geographical Databases: Assessing Vagueness in Less-Connected Nodes of the World City Network....Pages 331-350
Image-Based Change Detection of Geographic Information Using Spatial Constraints....Pages 351-367
Noise Annoyance Mapping....Pages 369-392

✦ Subjects

Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Earth Sciences, general; Earth Sciences, general; Database Management; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering