A multigranular spatiotemporal data model

  • Authors:

  • Elena Camossi;Michela Bertolotto;Elisa Bertino;Giovanna Guerrini

  • Affiliations:

  • Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy

  • Venue:
  • GIS '03 Proceedings of the 11th ACM international symposium on Advances in geographic information systems
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

A large percentage of data managed by a variety of different application domains has spatiotemporal characteristics. Unfortunately, traditional geographical information systems do not allow for an easy representation of temporal aspects of spatial data. Moreover, they do not usually support the representation of data at multiple levels of granularity. In this paper we present a multigranular spatiotemporal data model. Our model extends the ODMG model with multiple spatial and temporal granularities. In particular, the model allows for an uniform management of two kinds of spatiotemporal objects: moving entities (e.g. cars, planes, etc.) and temporal maps (i.e., maps representing the change over time of a given geographic area). It also provides a framework for mapping the movement of an entity such as a car onto an underlying geographic area. The model we propose relies on a standard definition of temporal granularity. On the other hand, the representation of spatial entities at multiple granularities is obtained by applying model oriented map generalization principles. In particular, we consider a set of generalization operators that guarantee topological consistency.