Refining Topological Relations between Regions Considering Their Shapes

  • Authors:
  • Roland Billen;Yohei Kurata

  • Affiliations:
  • Geomatics Unit, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium B-4000;SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany 28334

  • Venue:
  • GIScience '08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Geographic Information Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Topological relations are sometimes insufficient for differentiating spatial configurations of two objects with critical difference in their connection styles. In this paper, we present the projective 9+-intersection model, which refines topological relations into projective binary relationsby considering projective properties of the objects' shapes. This is indeed a reformulation of projective concepts of the Dimensional Modelwithin the framework of the 9+-intersection. Thirty projective binary relationsare established between two regions in R2, one of which has a multi-order boundary(region+ mob). These relations are identified computationally by applying to all theoretical relations the existing constraints for topological region-region relations and seven new specific constraints. After defining the concept of continuous neighbours between two projective binary relations, a conceptual neighbourhood graph of the 30 projective region+ mob-region relations is developed.