A relational model for environmental and water resources data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Horsburgh, Jeffery S ^a   Tarboton, David G ^a   Maidment, David R ^b   Zaslavsky, Ilya ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EARTH SCIENCES; INFORMATION THEORY; METADATA; MODAL ANALYSIS; QUERY PROCESSING; WATER; WATER RESOURCES;

DATA MODELLING; DATA VALUES; DESIGN PRINCIPLES; DIMENSION DATA; HETEROGENEOUS DATA; INTEGRATED ANALYSIS; LARGE DATA SETS; RAW MEASUREMENTS; RELATIONAL DATABASE MODEL; RELATIONAL DATABASES; RELATIONAL MODELING; STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; WATER RESOURCES DATA;

RELATIONAL DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DATA SET; DATABASE; DESIGN; WATER RESOURCE;

EID: 46049121326     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007WR006392     Document Type: Article

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