par Pozzani, Gabriele;Zimanyi, Esteban 
Référence Lecture notes in computer science, 6121 LNCS, page (96-107)
Publication Publié, 2012

Référence Lecture notes in computer science, 6121 LNCS, page (96-107)
Publication Publié, 2012
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : | The notion of granularity is used in several areas of computing. In temporal databases, granularity relates to the fact that the time frame associated to an event of interest (e.g., an accident) can be envisaged at several levels of detail (e.g., hour, day, month, etc.). Similarly, granularity in data warehousing is the level of detail at which facts (e.g., sales) are captured in dimensions (e.g., product, store, and day). However, there is no commonly-agreed definition of spatial or spatio-temporal granularities. Sometimes, the term spatial granularity is confounded with multiple resolutions. Further, the few proposals about them are mainly focused on the vector data model. In this paper, we define spatial and spatio-temporal granularities for raster data models. In our framework, relations and operations between spatial and spatio-temporal granularities are also defined. © 2012 Springer-Verlag. |