Advances in Spatial Databases

Geometric algorithms and their complexity.- The combination of spatial access methods and computational geometry in geographic database systems.- FI-Quadtree: a new data structure for content-oriented retrieval and fuzzy search.- The importance of metaknowledge for environmental information systems.- An extended object-oriented data model for large image bases.- On the integration of GIS and remotely sensed data: Towards an integrated system to handle the large volume of spatial data.- Towards a toolbox for geographic user interfaces.- The management of the ambiguities in a graphical query language for geographical information systems.- Geo-SAL: A query language for spatial data analysis.- Reasoning about binary topological relations.- Topological constraints: A representational framework for approximate spatial and temporal reasoning.- Grow and post index trees: Role, techniques and future potential.- The spatial locality and a spatial indexing method by dynamic clustering in hypermap system.- Properties of geographic data: Requirements for spatial access methods.- Efficient processing of spatial queries in line segment databases.- The performance of object decomposition techniques for spatial query processing.- Performance comparison of segment access methods implemented on top of the buddy-tree.- Extending a DBMS with spatial operations.- The use of a complex object language in geographic data management.- Motion in a geographical database system.- A spatial index for convex simplicial complexes in d dimensions.- An algorithm for computing the overlay of k-dimensional spaces.- Encoding and manipulating pictorial data with S+-trees.- Exploiting extensible DBMS in integrated geographic information systems.- Storage management in geographic information systems.- Pannel: Why does GIS industry ignore university research?.