SPATIAL DATABASES

Objectives

• Database managemnet systems play an important role in domains that involve large and complex data with spatial references. Students completing this course should acquired:

  
  Basic requirements of spatial database systems
  Understanding of current paradigms to model spatial information
  Basic concepts and issues of access methods
  Current types of query processing and limitations
  Identifying consistency problems in the treatment of spatial information
  Issues related to data warehousing and data mining
  Data integration issues
  Requirements of spatio-temporal database
  A critical thinking about spatial databases.

Evaluation

• The course evaluation consists of:

  Three individual assignments
  One project in a group of two or three students