书目名称 | Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems | 编辑 | Nabil R. Adam,Aryya Gangopadhyay | 视频video | | 丛书名称 | Advances in Database Systems | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been experiencing asteady and unprecedented growth in terms of general interest, theorydevelopment, and new applications in the last decade or so. GIS is aninter-disciplinary field that brings together many diverse areas suchas computer science, geography, cartography, engineering, and urbanplanning. ..Database Issues in Geographic Information Systems. approachesseveral important topics in GIS from a database perspective. Databasemanagement has a central role to play in most computer-basedinformation systems, and is expected to have an equally important roleto play in managing information in GIS as well. Existing databasetechnology, however, focuses on the alphanumeric data that arerequired in business applications. GIS, like many other applicationareas, requires the ability to handle spatial as well as alphanumericdata. This requires new innovations in data management, which is thecentral theme of this monograph. The monograph begins with an overviewof different application areas and their data and functionalrequirements. Next it addresses the following topics in the context ofGIS: representation and manipulation of spatial data, data mode | 出版日期 | Book 1997 | 关键词 | GIS; Geoinformationssysteme; cartography; database; development; geographic data; information | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6109-5 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4613-7799-3 | isbn_ebook | 978-1-4615-6109-5Series ISSN 1386-2944 | issn_series | 1386-2944 | copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 1997 |
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