SPATIAL DATABASES

Introduction

• Brief Introduction to Database Concepts, Rodriguez(2004)
• Issues in Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems(GIS), Samet (2003)

Spatial Data Modeling

• An Introduction to Spatial Databases, Güting 1993.
• Data Models and Query Languages for Spatial Databases, Paredaens and Kuijpers (1998).
• Extending Geographical Representation to include Fields of Spatial Objects, Cova and Goodchild (2002).
• Voronoi Diagrams, Aurenhammer & Klein
• Spatial Database Systems, Güting

Logical Models and languages

• A Database perspective on Geospatial Data Modeling, Voisard and David(2002) (Tuesday 04/12)
• Chapter 3, Spatial Databases: A Tour, S. Shekhar and S. Chawla, Prentice Hall, 2003, ISBN 013-017480-7

Consistency Issues

• Inconsistency Issues in Spatial Databases, Rodríguez 2005.

Storage Methods

• Spatial Databases and Geographical Information Systems(GIS), Samet (2002)
• Spatial Data Structures, Samet (1995) (Martes 05/03) .
• Multidimensional Access Methods, Goede and Gunther (1998).
• R-Tree: A Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching, Guttman (1984).

Query Processing and Optimization

• Chapter 5 of book: Shekar, S. and Crawla, S, Spatial Databases: A Tour. Prentice Hall,2003. Hard Copies available.

Topics in Spatial Data Warehousing/Data Mining

• Chapter 7 of book: Shekar, S. and Crawla, S, Spatial Databases: A Tour. Prentice Hall,2003.

Topics in Spatial Temporal Databases

• Moving Objects Databases: Achivements and Challenges,Rodríguez 2005.

Spatial Databases and the Web