Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Graduate
SUBJECT
| MIH0011 | Spatial Databases |
| Teaching Staff in Charge |
Lect. TRÎMBITAS Gabriela, Ph.D., gabitr cs.ubbcluj.ro |
| Aims |
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To initiate the students into spatial database problems and concepts:
• To understand the value of SDBMS • To understand the concept of spatial databases • Learn about the components of SDBMS • To understand the concept of a query language; improve the skills in using a standard query language (SQL) • Learn to use spatial ADTs with SQL • Learn to use OGIS spatial ADTs with SQL To induce practical skills for working with spatial databases and data struktures |
| Content |
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1. What is a Spatial Database System?
• Terms, Definitions • Modeling Spatial Data in Traditional DBMS 2. Spatial Data Types and Traditional Databases • Spatial Data Types and Post-relational Databases 3. How is a SDBMS different from a GIS ? • Components of a SDBMS 4. Three Layer Architecture • Spatial Taxonomy • Data Models 5. Spatial Concepts and Data Models • What is a Data Model? • Types of Data Models • Models of Spatial Information • Field based Model • Types of Field Operations • Object Model 6. Classifying Spatial objects • Spatial Object Types in OGIS Data Model • Classifying Operations on spatial objects in Object Model • Topological Relationships 7. Three-Step Database Design • Extending ER with Spatial Concepts • Conceptual Data Modeling with UML • Comparing UML Class Diagrams to ER Diagrams 8. Spatial Query Languages • Standard Database Query Languages • Relational Algebra • Basic SQL Primer • Query Processing, • Query Optimization 9. Extending SQL for Spatial Data • Example Queries that emphasize spatial aspects • Trends: Object-Relational SQL 10. Spatial Storage and Indexing • Storage:Disk and Files • Organizing spatial data with space filling curves • Grid Files • R-tree family • Spatial Indexing: • Search Data-Structures 11. Trends |
| References |
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1. Shashi Shekhar, Sanjay Chawla , Spatial Databases: A Tour , Prentice Hall, 2003 (ISBN 013-017480-7)1.Manfred M. Fischer, Peter Nijkamp - Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Modelling and Policy Evaluation, Springer-Verlag GmbH (1993)
2. Emmanuel Stefanakis - Geographic Databases and GIS 2008, Hardcover.,ISBN: 978-3-540-22491-4 3. Gabriel M Kuper, Leonid Libkin, Jan Paredaens (Editors) - Constraint Databases. Springer 2000, ISBN 3-540-66151-4 4. Applications of Spatial Data Structures: Computer Graphics, Image Processing and Gis (Addison-Wesley series in computer science) (Hardcover), 1989 |
| Assessment |
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The final grade will take into account the laboratory activity and the written and the practical exam; it will be the average of this 3 grades. |
| Links: | Syllabus for all subjects Romanian version for this subject Rtf format for this subject |