Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases: First Symposium SSD '89. Santa Barbara, California, July 17/18, 1989. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 409)

The most recent developments in spatial data management are reported in these proceedings. SSD '89 brought together computer scientists and experts from application areas such as geography, computer vision, robotics, computer-aided manufacturing, and environmental information systems. This proceedings volume includes subjects such as extensible database systems, spatial data structures an index structures, spatial reasoning, geographic information systems, quadtrees, and thematic map modeling. 7±2 criteria for assessing and comparing spatial data structures....Pages 1-27 The fieldtree: A data structure for geographic information systems....Pages 29-44 A full resolution elevation representation requiring three bits per pixel....Pages 45-64 The DASDBS GEO-Kernel, concepts, experiences, and the second step....Pages 65-88 Performance comparison of point and spatial access methods....Pages 89-114 Strategies for optimizing the use of redundancy in spatial databases....Pages 115-134 Tiling large geographical databases....Pages 135-146 Extending a database to support the handling of environmental measurement data....Pages 147-165 Thematic map modeling....Pages 167-190 Hierarchical spatial data structures....Pages 191-212 Distributed quadtree processing....Pages 213-232 Node distribution in a PR quadtree....Pages 233-252 An object-oriented approach to the design of geographic information systems....Pages 253-269 A topological data model for spatial databases....Pages 271-286 A well-behaved file structure for the storage of spatial objects....Pages 287-300 The design of pictorial databases based upon the theory of symbolic projections....Pages 301-323 Reasoning on space with object-centered knowledge representations....Pages 325-344 Qualitative spatial reasoning: A semi-quantitative approach using fuzzy logic....Pages 345-364