Title :
Research on storing raster metadata in spatial database
Author :
Jiang, Ping ; Cheng, Changxiu ; Xie, Jiong ; Fei, Chunxia
Author_Institution :
State Key Laboratory of Resources and Environmental Information System, Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS; Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101 China
Abstract :
Storage of raster metadata is a key topic in spatial database. Although there are a few of abstract standards on raster metadata, there is not implement standard about it. This paper concludes three storage models implemented in current spatial databases and discusses their advantages and disadvantages. After that analyzing, the paper proposes a mixed storage method which is used the relational table to store structured metadata and used XML to store non-structured metadata, and gives its implementation solution.
Keywords :
Data models; Earth; Organizations; Spatial databases; Standards organizations; XML; Metadata; Raster Data; Spatial Database; Storage;
Conference_Titel :
Information Science and Engineering (ICISE), 2010 2nd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hangzhou, China
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7616-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICISE.2010.5690403
