Reactive Data Structures for Geographic Information Systems (Spatial Information Systems)

1. Introduction To Geographic Information Systems -- Pt. I. Reactive Data Structures. 2. Overview Of Spatial Data Structures. 3. The Reactive Binary Space Partitioning Tree. 4. Orientation-insensitive Indexing Techniques. 5. The Binary Line Generalization Tree. 6. The Reactive-tree -- Pt. Ii. Persistence And Object-oriented Modelling. 7. A Geographic Extension To The Relational Data Model. 8. Implementation Of The Geographic Extension. 9. The Object-oriented Approach And Procol. 10. Persistent Procol -- Appendix A: The R-tree In Procol -- Appendix B: Abbreviations. Petrus Johannes Maria Van Oosterom. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.