Object-Oriented Design for Temporal GIS

Object-oriented Design for Temporal GIS explores the major components of the object-oriented analysis and design methods, how they can be used for modeling spatio-temporal data, and how these components are developed and maintained within GIS. It also offers practical guidance to object-oriented methods by demonstrating the feasibility of applying such a method to issues involved in handling spatio-temporal data. The author demonstrates how this knowledge might be used in a wide range of applications such as political boundary record maintenance (historical data), disease incidence rate analysis in epidemics (diffusion rate), and environmental studies of climate change (time-series data).