Table of Contents

Spatio-Temporal GIS
Goals
Fields or Objects ?
Who needs it ?
Example
Example
Two major kinds of Time
t-GIS system types
Types of time value
Relational Databases ?
Snapshots
Events by Snapshots
Vector Snapshots
Spatio-Temporal Obj
Rasters and Events
Change types in a t-GIS
Granularity
Simple Bitemporal
Road planning
Spatio-temporal operations
Temporal Indexes
Interpretations as Objects
Multiple geometries
Interpretations as Object
Further Information
Who doesn’t need t-GIS ?
Commercial t-GIS ?
Dynamic Schema

Author: Philip Sargent

Email: Philip.Sargent@computer.org

Home Page: www.bigfoot.com/~Philip.Sargent/

Other information:
This review was done while I was a Visiting Scientist at JRC Ispra ( www.jrc.org )

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