An efficient nd-point data structure for querying flood risk

Governments use flood maps for city planning and disaster management to protect people and assets. Flood risk mapping projects carried out for these purposes generate a huge amount of modelling results. Previously, data submitted are highly condensed products such as typical flood inundation maps and tables for loss analysis. Original...

Towards an Implementable Data Schema for 4D/5D Cadastre Including Bi-Temporal Support

Cadastral databases have unique requirements not shared by other spatial databases: The third spatial dimension must be included, but visualisation using 2D software must also be accommodated. The majority of users of the Cadastre will use 2D software, and should be provided an “instant in time” plan view of the boundaries (with any 3D parcels ...

A Conceptual Model Supporting a Range of 3D Parcel Representations Through all Stages: Data Capture, Transfer and Storage

A taxonomy of spatial units in a mixed 2D and 3D cadastral database

The aim of this paper is to define the range of objects that may need to be accommodated in the development of a practical cadastral database, to also accommodate 3D spatial units, and permit a range of encodings to coexist. The level of geometric encoding as defined in the ISO19152 LADM provides a framework of categorization of spatial units...

Initial Analysis of the Second FIG 3D Cadastres Questionnaire: Status in 2014 and Expectations for 2018

In this paper we present the initial analysis of the second FIG 3D Cadastres questionnaire, spanning the years 2014-2018. The first version of the 3D Cadastres questionnaire was conducted in 2010 and collected the status of 2010 and the expectations or ambitions for 2014. Most of the FIG 3D Cadastres working group members had completed the 2010...

Connectivity in the regular polytope representation

In order to be able to draw inferences about real world phenomena from a representation expressed in a digital computer, it is essential that the representation should have a rigorously correct algebraic structure. It is also desirable that the underlying algebra be familiar, and provide a close modelling of those phenomena. The fundamental...