Selected spatio-temporal data types and operations for a 3D/4D geological information system

Author

Shumilov, S. ; Cremers, Armin

fYear

2004

fDate

21-23 June 2004

Firstpage

111

Lastpage

114

Abstract

The management of the evolution in time of large and complex 3D-models is not a trivial task and may largely surpass the data volume and complexity of conventional GIS. 3D objects changing in time have to be retrieved, inserted, processed and updated. It requires the development of application-specific spatiotemporal data types and operations. In this paper we present the design and the realisation of spatiotemporal data types and operations to be used in a typical 3D/4D-geological information system, and we give an outlook on our further research in the field of distributed spatiotemporal geoinformation systems.

Keywords

geographic information systems; geophysics computing; spatial data structures; temporal databases; visual databases; 3D geological information system; 3D models; 3D objects; 4D geological information system; data complexity; data volume; distributed spatiotemporal geoinformation systems; spatiotemporal data operations; spatiotemporal data types; Collaborative work; Computer science; Database systems; Educational institutions; Environmental management; Geographic Information Systems; Geology; Information systems; Object oriented modeling; Spatiotemporal phenomena;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scientific and Statistical Database Management, 2004. Proceedings. 16th International Conference on

ISSN

1099-3371

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2146-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSDM.2004.1311199

Filename

1311199