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Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems approaches several important topics in GIS from a database perspective. Database management has a central role to play in most computer-based information systems, and is expected to have an equally important role to play in managing information in GIS as well. Existing database technology, however, focuses on the alphanumeric data that are required in business applications. GIS, like many other application areas, requires the ability to handle spatial as well as alphanumeric data. This requires new innovations in data management, which is the central theme of this monograph. The monograph begins with an overview of different application areas and their data and functional requirements. Next it addresses the following topics in the context of GIS: representation and manipulation of spatial data, data modeling, indexing, and query processing. Future research directions are outlined in each of the above topics. The last chapter discusses issues that are emerging as important areas of technological innovations in GIS.
Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems is suitable as a secondary text for a graduate level course on Geographic Information Systems, Database Systems or Cartography, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in industry.
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Book Title: Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems
Authors: Nabil R. Adam, Aryya Gangopadhyay
Series Title: Advances in Database Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6109-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9924-7Published: 30 April 1997
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-7799-3Published: 04 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-6109-5Published: 06 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1386-2944
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 136
Topics: Data Structures and Information Theory, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Geography, general, Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry, Environmental Management