WiSe 16/17: Spezielle Aspekte der Datenverwaltung: Geospatial Databases
Agnès Voisard
Information for students
Additional information / Pre-requisites
Target group
Studens in Master course
Prelimintaries
Good programming skills
Introduction in Database Systems
Comments
The goal of this course is to acquire the background of spatial databases, the kernel of Geographic Systems. The major aspects that will be handled are: modeling and querying geospatial information, spatial access methods (SAMs), data representation, basic operations (mostly from computational geometry), and optimization. Insights into current applications such as location-based services (e.g., navigation systems) will also be given. Knowledge in databases is necessary. This course encompasses: formal lectures, exercises, as well as a practical project with PostGIS.
closeSuggested reading
Handouts are enough to understand the course.
The following book will be mostly used: P. Rigaux, M. Scholl, A. Voisard.Spatial Databases - With Application to GIS. Morgan Kaufmann, May 2001. 432 p. (copies in the main library)
15 Class schedule
Additional appointments
Tue, 2017-02-14 14:00 - 16:00Regular appointments