Finding haystacks with needles: Ranked search for data using geospatial and temporal characteristics

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6809 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 55-72

  Megler, V M ^a   Maier, David ^a  

^a Portland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

metadata; querying scientific data; spatio temporal queries

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL SENSOR; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; QUERY METHODS; SCIENTIFIC DATA; SEARCH CRITERION; SEARCH RESULTS; SENSOR MEASUREMENTS; SPATIOTEMPORAL QUERIES; TEMPORAL CHARACTERISTICS;

BLENDING; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SENSORS;

METADATA;

EID: 79961175967     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22351-8_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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