Adding Time into Geographic Information System Databases

The Handbook of Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 169-184

  Yuan, May ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data models; Databases; Geographic information systems (GIS); Ontology; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873806296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690819.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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