ISBN: 3-540-66931-0
TITLE: Integrated Spatial Databases: Digital Images and GIS
AUTHOR: Agouris, Peggy; Stefanidis, Anthony (Eds.)
TOC:

Object Extraction from Raster Imagery
View Alignment of Aerial and Terrestrial Imagery in Urban Environments 3
Christopher Jaynes
Automated Extraction of Linear Features from Aerial Imagery Using Kohonen Learning and GIS Data 20
Pete Doucette, Peggy Agouris. Mohamad Musavi, and Anthony Stefanidis
Reconstruction of Building Models from Maps and Laser Altimeter Data 34
Uwe Stilla and K. Jurkiewicz
Comparison of the Potential of Different Sensors for an Automatic Approach for Change Detection in GIS Databases 47
Volker Walter
Geospatial Analysis
Cost-Effective Determination of Biomass from Aerial Images 67
H. Schultz, D. Slaymaker, C. Holmes, F. Stolle, A. Hanson, Ed Riseman, M. Delaney, and M. Powell
Information Extraction from Remote Sensing Images Guided by Spatial Databases over the Internet 77
Shashi Shekhar, Ranga Raju Vatsavai, Sanjay Chawla, Thomas E. Burk
Change Detection by Classification of a Multi-temporal Image 105
Ben Gorte
A Probabilistic Approach to Environmental Change Detection with Area-Class Map Data 122
Christopher B. Jones, J. Mark Ware, and David Miller
Formalisms and Modeling
Landscape Editing with Knowledge-Based Measure Deductions for Ecological Planning 139
Joern Moeltgen, Benno Schmidt, and Werner Kuhn
A Framework for Integrating GIS and Digital Images 153
Zarine Kemp
On Ontology in Image Analysis 168
Thomas Bittner, Stephan Winter
Relational Algebra for Spatial Data Management 192
Nikos Lorentzos, Nectaria Tryfona, J.R. Rios Viqueira
Data Access
Integrating GIS and Imagery through XML-Based Information Mediation 211
Armanath Gupta, Richard Marciano, Ilya Zaslavsky, and Chaitania Baru
The ATree: A Data Structure to Support Very Large Scientific Databases 235
Pedja Bogdanovich and Hanan Sameth
Improving High-Dimensional Indexing with Heuristics for Content-Based Image Retrieval 249
Yongjian Fu and Jui-Che Teng
Representation and Interactive Manipulation of Massive CAD Databases 268
Andy Wilson, Dinesh Manocha, and Ming C. Lin
Conquest: CONcurrent QUEries over Space and Time 286
Silvia Nittel, Kenneth Ng, and Richard Muntz
CHOROCHRONOS - Research on Spatio-temporal Database Systems 308
Timos Sellis
Author Index
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