Automatic segmentation and classification of movement trajectories for transportation modes

Storing and analysing massive aerial LIDAR datasets in a DBMS

Storage and analysis of massive TINs in a DBMS

Advances in technologies to collect elevation data are far superior to the advances to store and process the resulting point clouds. This paper investigates the use of a DBMS to store and manage not only the points coming from massive point-based datasets, but also a TIN of these points. TINs are used as a support structure to implement...

Validation of planar partitions using constrained triangulations

Planar partitions—full tessellations of the plane into non-overlapping polygons—are frequently used in GIS to model concepts such as land cover, cadastral parcels or administrative boundaries. Since in practice planar partitions are often stored as a set of individual objects (polygons) to which attributes are attached (e.g. stored with a...

Topologically consistent 3D city models obtained by extrusion

One of the simplest methods to construct a 3D city model is to extrude building footprints to obtain \block-shaped" polyhedra representing buildings. While the method is well-known and easy to implement, if the 2D topological relationships between the footprints are not taken into account, the resulting 3D city models will not necessarily be...

Encoding continuous spatial phenomena in GML

Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models

One of the simplest methods to construct a 3D city model is to extrude building footprints, to obtain "block-shaped" buildings. While the method is well-known and easy to implement, if the topological relationships between the footprints are not taken into account, the resulting city models will not necessarily be topologically consistent. As a...

Storage and analysis of MASSIVE TINs in a DBMS

3D Validation of CityGML