A web-based spatial data access system using semantic R-trees

Information Sciences

Volumn 167, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 41-61

  Chen, Shu Ching ^a   Wang, Xinran ^b   Rishe, Naphtali ^a   Weiss, Mark Allen ^a  

^a Florida International University   (United States)

^b MICROSOFT   (United States)

Author keywords

Semantic R tree; Spatial data access; Web based system

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA REDUCTION; DATA STRUCTURES; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

INTERNALLY DISTURBED MULTITHREADING (IDMT); SEMANTIC R-TREE; SPATIAL DATA ACCESS; WEB-BASED SYSTEM;

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 9544223206     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2003.07.019     Document Type: Article

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