Evaluation of cardinal direction developments between moving points

Tao Chen, Hechen Liu, Markus Schneider
2010 Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems - GIS '10  
Recently, a wide range of applications like hurricane research, fire management, navigation systems, and transportation, to name only a few, has shown increasing interest in managing and analyzing space and time-referenced objects, so-called moving objects, that continuously change their positions over time. In the same way as moving objects can change their location over time, the spatial relationships between them can change over time. An important class of spatial relationships are cardinal
more » ... irections like north and southeast. In spatial databases and GIS, they characterize the relative directional position between static objects in space and are frequently used as selection and join criteria in spatial queries. Transferred to a spatiotemporal context, the simultaneous location change of different moving objects can imply a temporal evolution of their directional relationships, called development. The goal of this paper is to illustrate, explain, and formally define cardinal direction developments between two moving points.
doi:10.1145/1869790.1869854 dblp:conf/gis/ChenLS10 fatcat:dibtc75vuzednfee66da5kirba