A geographic information system using quadtrees |
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Authors: | Hanan Samet Azriel Rosenfeld Clifford A Shaffer Robert E Webber |
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Affiliation: | Computer Science Department and Center for Automation Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | We describe the current status of an ongoing research effort to develop a geographic information system based on quadtrees. Quadtree encodings were constructed for area, point and line features for a small area in Northern California. The encoding used was a variant of the linear quadtree. The implementation used a B-tree to organize the list of leaves and allow management of trees too large to fit in core memory. Several database query functions have been implemented, including set operations, region property computations, map editing functions and map subset and windowing functions. A user of the system may access the database via an English-like query language. |
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Keywords: | Quadtrees Geographic information systems Image processing Region representation Curve representation |
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