Spatial Databases : A Tour

Chawla, Sanjay, Shekhar, Shashi

ISBN 10: 0130174807 / ISBN 13: 9780130174802

Editore: Pearson Education, Limited, 2002

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• Titolo: Spatial Databases : A Tour
• Editore: Pearson Education, Limited
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0130174807
• ISBN 13: 9780130174802
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Edizione: 1st.
• Condizione: Good

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Riassunto

This book by leading experts in the field provides readers with a wide range of applications and methods for spatial database management systems, and allows readers to gain hands-on experience with examples in the book. It balances theory (cutting-edge research) and practice (commercial trends) to provide a comprehensive and clear overview. Includes coverage of GIS application trends as spatial networks; discussion of spatial data mining; overview of OGIS standard spatial datatypes and operations; object-relational database framework applied in each chapter. For professionals in the field of Databases, Geographic Information Systems, Geography, Remote Sensing, Multimedia Information, Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Forestry, CAD/CAM, Health Informatics, and Natural Resource Management.

Informazioni sull?autore

Shashi Shekhar, an authority on spatial databases, is a professor and the head of the Spatial Database Research Group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Minnesota. Shashi has published numerous articles and has advised many organizations on spatial database issues. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sanjay Chawla is a Senior Technical Instructor with Vignette Corporation in Waltham, Massachusetts. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the University of Tennessee.