Spatial database

Author: Shashi Shekhar
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Each chapter of this book is followed by exercises to help readers assess their learning outcomes. It is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related fields, as well as for researchers and technicians in the IT industry. Spatial databases are a hot research area in recent years and are an interdisciplinary frontier discipline. This book comprehensively introduces the concepts, application domains, query languages, indexing and storage mechanisms of spatial data, spatial query processing and optimization, and also provides insightful discussions on spatial data mining and spatial data warehouses. The book is well-organized, rigorously written, and rich in examples, having been praised by authoritative figures in the industry. Each chapter of this book is followed by exercises to help readers assess their learning outcomes. It is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate and graduate students in computer science and related fields, as well as for researchers and technicians in the IT industry. For beginners looking to understand spatial databases, this book is also an extremely valuable reference.