Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Digital Elevation Models

  • Reference work entry
Encyclopedia of Database Systems

  • 187 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 2,500.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Recommended Reading

  1. de Berg M., van Kreveld M., Overmars M., and Schwarzkopf O. Computational Geometry – Algorithms and Applications. 2nd edn. Springer, Berlin, 2000.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  2. De Floriani L., Magillo P., and Puppo E., Applications of computational geometry to Geographic Information Systems. In Handbook of Computational Geometry, Chap. 7, J.R. Sack, J. Urrutia (eds.). Elsevier Science, 1999, pp. 333–388.

    Google Scholar 

  3. De Floriani L. and Puppo E. An On-line Algorithm for Constrained Delaunay Triangulation, Graphical Models and Image Processing, 54(4):290–300, 1992.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Dyn N., Levin D., and Rippa S. Data dependent triangulations for piecewise linear interpolation, IMA J. Numer. Analy., 10:137–154, 1990.

    MATH  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  5. Edelsbrunner H. and Tan T.S. An upper bound for conforming Delaunay triangulation: Discrete Comput. Geom., 10:197–213, 1993.

    MATH  MathSciNet  Google Scholar 

  6. Google Earth home page, http://earth.google.com/

  7. P.A., Longley M.F., Goodchild D.J., and Maguire D.W. (eds.) Rhind Geographical Information Systems, 2nd edn. Wiley, New York, 1999.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Microsoft Virtual Earth home page, http://www.microsoft.com/virtualearth/

  9. O'Rourke J., Computational Geometry in C, 2nd edn. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998.

    MATH  Google Scholar 

  10. R.J. and Peckham G. (eds.). Jordan Digital Terrain Modelling – Development and Applications in a Policy Support Environment, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer, Berlin, 2007.

    Google Scholar 

  11. United States Geological Survey (USGS) home page, http://www.usgs.gov/

  12. van Kreveld M. Digital elevation models and TIN algorithms. In Algorithmic Foundations of Geographic Information Systems, number 1340 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (tutorials), M. van Kreveld, J . Nievergelt, T. Roos, and P. Widmayer (eds.). Springer, Berlin, 1997, pp. 37–78.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. University of Genova, Genova, Italy

    Leila De Floriani & Paola Magillo

Authors
  1. Leila De Floriani
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Paola Magillo
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2009 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC

About this entry

Cite this entry

Floriani, L.D., Magillo, P. (2009). Digital Elevation Models. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_129

Download citation

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation