1. Spatial Databases - Course Overview
Spring 2017
Ki-Joune Li

2. Course Overview Goals No Textbook Some References
Understanding Spatial Databases and
Improving Application Development Skill with Spatial DBMS
No Textbook
Only lecture notes
Some References
Hanan Samet, “Design and Analysis of Spatial Data Structures”, 1990
Hanan Samet, “Applications of Spatial Data Structures”, 1990
Albert K. W., Yeung and G. Brent , “Spatial Database Systems: Design, Implementation and Project Management”, 2007
Yannis Manolopoulos, Apostolos N. Papadopoulos, and Michael Gr Vassilakopoulos, “Spatial Databases: Technologies, Techniques and Trends”, 2004
Shashi Shekhar and Sanjay Chawla, “Spatial Databases: A Tour”, 2002
Philippe Rigaux, Michel Scholl, and Agnès Voisard, “Spatial Databases: With Application to GIS”, 2001
Micheal F. Worboys, “GIS: a Computing Perspective”, CRC Press, 2004
Robert Laurini, Derek Thompson, “Fundamentals of Spatial Information Systems”, APIC Series, 1992

4. Plan Representation of Spatial Data Spatial Data Model
Spatial Database Management Systems
Building Spatial Databases
Developing Applications with Spatial Databases
Advanced Issues

5. Evaluation Participation: 10% Programming Assignment: 50%
Final Tests: 40%

6. Programming Assignments
To develop application systems of spatial databases
Using Spatial DBMS: PostGIS + JDBC
Using Open Source Geospatial S/W: GeoServer, QGIS