Moving Objects Databases (Hardcover)

Description:

The current trends in consumer electronics--including the use of GPS-equipped PDAs, phones, and vehicles, as well as the RFID-tag tracking and sensor networks--require the database support of a specific flavor of spatio-temporal databases. These we call Moving Objects Databases.

Why do you need this book? With current systems, most data management professionals are not able to smoothly integrate spatio-temporal data from moving objects, making data from, say, the path of a hurricane very difficult to model, design, and query. Whether your field is geology, national security, urban planning, mobile computing, or almost anything in between, this book’s concepts and techniques will help you solve the data management problems associated with this kind of data.

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Spatio-Temporal Databases in the Past
Modeling and Querying Current Movement
Modeling and Querying History of Movement
Data Structures and Algorithms for Moving Objects Types
The Constraint Database Approach
Spatio-Temporal Indexing.