Advances in Spatial Databases: 2nd Symposium, SSD '91, Zurich, Switzerland, August 28-30, 1991. Proceedings

Spatial database management has become an important subarea

of current database research. Research in this area is often

characterized by interdisciplinary cooperation: computer

scientists work with geographers andenvironmental

scientists to provide better access to spatial databases of

steadily increasing size. After the First Symposium on Large

Spatial Databases (SSD '89) was held in Santa Barbara,

California, in 1989 (and its proceedings published as Volume

409 of this series), a second symposium (SSD'91) was held in

Zurich, Switzerland. This proceedings volume contains the

papers presented at SSD '91. Topics include spatial data

models and access methods, performance studies, geometric

algorithms, spatial query languages and user interfaces,

geographic information systems, and object-oriented

techniques.