publication . Article . 2013

An Algebra for Spatiotemporal Data: From Observations to Events

Name: An Algebra for Spatiotemporal Data: From Observations to Events
Keywords: Spatio-temporal data, GIS, abstract data type, observations, events, General Earth and Planetary Sciences

Antônio Miguel Vieira Monteiro; Karine Reis Ferreira; Gilberto Camara;

Open Access

Published: 22 May 2013

Summary

Abstract

Recent technological advances in geospatial data gathering have created massive data sets with better spatial and temporal resolution than ever before. These large spatiotemporal data sets have motivated a challenge for Geoinformatics: how to model changes and design good quality software. Many existing spatiotemporal data models represent how objects and fields evolve over time. However, to properly capture changes, it is also necessary to describe events. As a contribution to this research, this article presents an algebra for spatiotemporal data. Algebras give formal specifications at a high-level abstraction, independently of programming languages. This help...

doi: 10.1111/tgis.12030

Subjects

free text keywords: Spatio-temporal data, GIS, abstract data type, observations, events, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Data set, Geospatial analysis, computer.software_genre, computer, Data type, Geoinformatics, Theoretical computer science, Data modeling, Temporal resolution, Algebra, Formal specification, Trajectory, Data mining, Computer science

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