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Trajectory; Moving point
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Representation of a time dependent position observed over some period of time. Usually represented as a polyline in a 3D (2D + time) space for an object moving in the 2D plane.
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Trajectories describe complete histories of movement; they are stored in moving objects databases, sometimes called trajectory databases in the literature.
When operations are included, a trajectory corresponds to a value of a moving point data type. Queries on databases containing trajectories can be formulated using moving object languages. When uncertainty about an object’s precise position is taken into account, an uncertain trajectory [3] results which can be viewed as a kind of cylindrical volume in the 2D + time space. There exists a lot of work on indexing trajectories [2]. Querying for trajectories similar to a given one is also an important research area [1].
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Güting, R.H. (2009). Trajectory. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_5005
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