Spatio-Temporal Databases

• Basic Notions and Rationale of the Handling of Imperfect Information in Spatio-Temporal Databases.- 1 Fuzzy Sets for Representing the Spatial and Temporal Dimensions in GIS Databases.- 2 Toward Spatio-Temporal Patterns.- 3 Toward Extensible Spatio-Temporal Databases: An Approach Based on User-Defined Aggregates.- 4 A Declarative Framework for Reasoning on Spatio-Temporal Data.- 5 Representing and Querying Imperfect Spatio-Temporal Information in an Object-based Framework.- 6 The Applicability of Generalized Constraints in Spatio-Temporal Database Modelling and Querying.- 7 An Error Tolerant Parser for Natural Language Queries in GISs.- 8 An MPEG-7 Based Video Database Management System.- 9 Modeling Spatial Objects Affected by Uncertainty.- 10 Fuzzy Minimum Bounding Rectangles.- 11 Fuzzy Spatial Data Types and Predicates: Their Definition and Integration into Query Languages.- 12 A Possibility-Based Model to Index Remote Sensing Images.- 13 Vague Geographical Knowledge Management — A Flow-Chart Based Application to Spatial Information Analysis.- 14 Fuzzy Classifications in Large Geographical Databases: Assessing Vagueness in Less-Connected Nodes of the World City Network.- 15 Image-Based Change Detection of Geographic Information Using Spatial Constraints.- 16 Noise Annoyance Mapping.

From the reviews: "The book begins with a theory section comprising 11 chapters ... . Overall, Spatio-Temporal Databases is excellent as a cover-to-cover read ... . New graduate students in geoinformatics (or others approaching the advanced concepts for the first time) should read this book front to back ... . When they finish, they will be well-informed and ready to succeed ... . This is an important book for all research groups ... in any form; the authors and editors deserve thanks for producing such a good one." (Phil A. Graniero, Geomatica, Vol. 59 (2), 2005)