Abstract
Terrain data is becoming increasingly popular both in industry and in academia. Many tools have been developed for visualizing terrain data. However, we find that (1) they usually accept very few data formats of terrain data only; (2) they do not support terrain simplification well which, as will be shown, is used heavily for query processing in spatial databases; and (3) they do not provide the surface distance operator which is fundamental for many applications based on terrain data. Motivated by this, we developed a tool called Terrain-Toolkit for terrain data which accepts a comprehensive set of data formats, supports terrain simplification and provides the surface distance operator.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment |
Place of Publication | Hangzhou, China |
Publisher | VLDB Endowment |
Pages | 1645-1648 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Volume | 7 |
Edition | 13 |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Externally published | Yes |