Spatiotemporal database
No Comments A spatiotemporal database is a database that manages both space and time information. Common examples include:
- Tracking of moving objects, which typically can occupy only a single position at a given time.
- A database of wireless communication networks, which may exist only for a short timespan within a geographic region.
- An index of species in a given geographic region, where over time additional species may be introduced or existing species migrate or die out.
- Historical tracking of plate tectonic activity.
Spatiotemporal databases are an extension of spatial databases. A spatiotemporal database embodies spatial, temporal, and spatiotemporal database concepts, and captures spatial and temporal aspects of data and deals with
- geometry changing over time and/or
- location of objects moving over invariant geometry.
- Spatio-temporal Databases: manage spatial data whose geometry changes over time
- Geometry: position and/or extent
- Global change data: climate or land cover changes
- Transportation: cars, airplanes
- Animated movies/video DBs
- A special Temporal Database
- All the features of temporal database
- Attributes can be spatial also
- Extension of Spatial Databases
- Objects change instead of being static
- At any timestamp it is a conventional Spatial Database
- New Database type
- Efficient Representation of Space and Time
- Data Models
- Query Languages
- Query processing and Indexing
- GUI for spatio-temporal datasets



