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Managing Time in GIS An Event-Oriented Approach

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Recent Advances in Temporal Databases

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Time integration within GIS requires a comprehensive analysis of spatiotemporal phenomena. This paper presents a conceptual model of time and space suitable for geographic applications. A topological temporal framework for representing entity-based events and processes is proposed. An event-oriented model, extended from the versioning concept, describes different evolution levels. The temporal operations possible with this architecture are defined in terms of time- and event-based queries. Performance and some implementation issues are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Rural Engineering Spatial Information Systems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, CH-1015, Switzerland

    Christophe Claramunt

  2. Department of Geography Planning and Development Research Center, Laval University, Quebec, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Marius Thériault

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    James Clifford PhD  & Alexander Tuzhilin PhD  & 

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Claramunt, C., Thériault, M. (1995). Managing Time in GIS An Event-Oriented Approach. In: Clifford, J., Tuzhilin, A. (eds) Recent Advances in Temporal Databases. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3033-8_2

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