SOLAP technology: Merging business intelligence with geospatial technology for interactive spatio-temporal exploration and analysis of data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-33

  Rivest, Sonia ^a   Bédard, Yvan ^a   Proulx, Marie Josée ^a   Nadeau, Martin ^a   Hubert, Frederic ^a   Pastor, Julien ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b KHEOPS Technologies   (Canada)

^c Leica Geosystems   (France)

Author keywords

Geographic Information Systems (GIS); Geovisualization; Multidimensional databases; Spatial decision support; Spatial On Line Analytical Processing (SOLAP)

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION; COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE; DATA REDUCTION; DATA WAREHOUSES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

GEOVISUALIZATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATABASES; SPATIAL DECISION-SUPPORT; SPATIAL ON-LINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (SOLAP);

ONLINE SYSTEMS;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 28444488846     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2005.10.002     Document Type: Article

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