Interoperating Geographic Information Systems

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Interoperating Geographic Information Systems, INTEROP'99, held in Zurich, Switzerland in March 1999. The volume presents 22 revised full papers carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. Also included are three invited full papers. The book addresses various topics of database interoperability and spatial data processing in particular identification, infrastructure, implementation, vectors and graphics, semantics, heterogeneous databases and representation.

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Interoperability: Invited Contributions.- Mediation to Deal with Heterogeneous Data Sources.- OpenGIS: Tales from a Small Market Town.- Evolution of EO/GIS Interoperability towards an Integrated Application Infrastructure.- Identification.- Feature Identities, Descriptors, and Handles.- A Global Unique Persistent Object ID for Geospatial Information Sharing.- Infrastructure.- Implementation Architecture for a National Data Center.- Architecture Considerations for Advanced Earth Observation Application Systems.- A Spatial Data Infrastructure for the Hindu Kush - Himalayan Region:.- Interoperability for GIScience Education.- Implementation.- Adding an Interoperable Server Interface to a Spatial Database: Implementation Experiences with OpenMapTM.- Interoperability in Practice: Problems in Semantic Conversion from Current Technology to OpenGIS.- Building a Prototype OpenGIS® Demonstration from Interoperable GIS Components.- Vectors and Graphics.- Modeling and Sharing Graphic Presentations of Geospatial Data.- Towards OpenGIS Systems.- Semantics.- Semantic and Geometric Aspects of Integrating Road Networks.- Assessing Semantic Similarities among Geospatial Feature Class Definitions.- Proceeding on the Road of Semantic Interoperability - Design of a Semantic Mapper Based on a Case Study from Transportation.- What Are Sports Grounds?.- Heterogeneous Databases.- Identifying Semantically Similar Elements in Heterogeneous Spatial Databases Using Predicate Logic Expressions.- Designing a Mediator for Managing Relationships between Distributed Objects.- Geospatial Mediator Functions and Container-Based Fast Transfer Interface in Si3CO Test-Bed.- Plug and Play: Interoperability in Concert.- Representation.- Functional Extensions of a Raster Representation for Topological Relations.- 3D Synthetic Environment Representation Using the "Non-Manifold 3D Winged-Edge" Data Structure.- Pluggable Terrain Module - Moving Digital Terrain Modelling to a Distributed Geoprocessing Environment.