Method and Apparatus for Building and Maintaining an Object-Oriented Geospatial Database

Abstract

An object-oriented system for building and maintaining a spatial data structure for use in topological applications. The data is organized in a database which incorporates spatial feature location, attributes, and metadata information in a relational framework across a hierarchy. The system provides for the instantiation of the objects and levels that make up the database and for spatially indexing the data among the objects across hierarchical levels. The data can be updated while preserving the spatial linking among objects and levels, and the data can be exported to a relational vector product format database.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 24, 1999
Accession Number
ADD019617

Entities

People

  • Kevin Shaw
  • Maria Cobb
  • Migi Chung

Organizations

  • United States Department of the Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Databases
  • Geographic Information Systems
  • Geographic Regions
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Hierarchies
  • Information Systems
  • Metadata
  • Relational Databases
  • Standards
  • Transportation
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.