The development and application of spatio-temporal data engine

Abstract

Time and space are ubiquitous aspects of reality. The spatio-temporal data is our cognition to external matter and the spatio-temporal data model is the theoretical foundation to manage the spatio-temporal data. But now the research of the spatio-temporal data model still is on the stage of theoretical research and can not implement the real application. Those how to uniformly manage the Spatio-Temporal multi-data source and different structure data and how to implement the Spatio-Temporal data model practically need to be crucially solved. We use the principle and the construction idea of the data engine for reference, build the spatio-temporal data engine by applying the notion and function of the data engine into the theory of the Spatio-Temporal data model and then use the Spatio-Temporal data engine to implement the application of the spatio-temporal data. The article mainly introduces the construction idea, the design, the implement of the spatio-temporal data engine and provides the example of using the spatio engine--ArcSDE to implement the application of the spatio-temporal data which explains our thinking of implementing the spatio-temporal data engine. The article is an attempt to resolve how to effectively and uniformly manage the Spatio-Temporal multi-data source and how to make the Spatio-Temporal data used in practice.