Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS

Hardback

Main Details

Title Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Monica Wachowicz
SeriesResearch Monographs in GIS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:136
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreComputer-aided design (CAD)
Object-oriented programming (OOP)
ISBN/Barcode 9780748408313
ClassificationsDewey:620.00420285
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 10 Tables, black and white

Publishing Details

Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date 17 June 1999
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

There has been an increasing demand in GIS for systems that support historical data: time-series data as well as mobility information. From a modelling perspective, there are advantages in integrating object-oriented analysis and design to databases as well as to visualisation capabilities of GIS. Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modelling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within a GIS. It also offers practical guidance to object-oriented methods by demonstrating the feasibility of applying such methods to issues involved in handling spatio-temporal data. The author demonstrates how this knowledge might be used in a wide range of applications such as political boundary record maintenance (historical data), disease incidence rate analysis in epidemics (diffusion rate), and environmental studies of climate change (time-series data). This understanding contributes to the development of theory in GIS and improves the design of GIS to support the modelling of semantics, space and time elements of geographical information.