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Indexing Spatiotemporal Archives

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Evolution; Indexing, Native-Space; Indexing, Parametric Space; Index, MVR-Tree; Index, R-Tree; Life-Time; Moving Objects; Spatiotemporal Index Structures

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Consider a number of objects moving continuously on a 2-dimensional universe over some time interval. Given the complete archive of the spatio-temporal evolution of these objects, we would like to build appropriate index structures for answering range and nearest neighbor queries efficiently. For example: “Find all objects that appeared inside area S during time-interval [t1, t2)” and “Find the object nearest to point P at time t”.

Consider the spatio-temporal evolution appearing in Fig. 1. The X and Y axes represent the plane while the T axis corresponds to the time dimension. At time 1 objects o1 (a point) and o2 (a region) appear. At time 2, object o3 appears, while o1 moves to a new position and o2 shrinks. Object o1 moves again at times 4 and 5; o2continues to shrink and disappears at time 5. Based on its...

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Hadjieleftheriou, M., Kollios, G., Tsotras, V., Gunopulos, D. (2017). Indexing Spatiotemporal Archives. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_617

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