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Extending a database to support the handling of environmental measurement data

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Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases (SSD 1989)

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This paper presents an approach to handle environmental measurement data within a relational database. The approach has been developed within a cooperative environmental research project exploring the contamination of groundwater and soil. Considering the special properties of measurement data we suggest an extension to data retrieval that allows the user to query measurement attributes without knowing the exact spatial and temporal measurement points. Further on, the interaction of this extension with the relational operations is outlined and a system design for an implementation is sketched.

The work of the author is supported by the PWAB Project of Baden-Württemberg under grant no. PW 87 045

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Neugebauer, L. (1990). Extending a database to support the handling of environmental measurement data. In: Buchmann, A.P., Günther, O., Smith, T.R., Wang, YF. (eds) Design and Implementation of Large Spatial Databases. SSD 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 409. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-52208-5_26

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