ENGE303

Geospatial Database Management System

3credits
150total marks

Course objective

The objective of this course is to provide the principles, techniques, and tools of geospatial data management within database systems. It emphasizes database management systems, data models, ER models, spatial data models, spatial queries, spatial indexing, and computational geometry, enabling students to design and implement spatial data models and apply geospatial database techniques to real-world problems.

Syllabus at a glance

  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Data Models and Database Languages
  3. 3Relational Data Model
  4. 4Structured Query Language (SQL)
  5. 5Spatial Database Technology
  6. 6Spatial Concepts and Data Models
  7. 7Spatial Query Language
  8. 8Computational Geometry
  9. 9Spatial Storage and Optimization
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