A Lineage Meta-Database Approach Toward Spatial Analytic Database Optimization
David P. Lanter · Cartography and Geographic Information Systems · 1993
This work demonstrates how increasing levels of intelligence can be added to commercial geographic information systems. The lineage-knowledge representation introduced in an earlier article (Lanter 1991) provides a basis for encoding the logic applied within specific spatial analytic applications. This knowledge is general, reusable and extendible to solving many significant problems in geographic information processing. In this study, the lineage-knowledge representation is applied to automatically differentiate between source and derived layers, pick an optimal spatial analytic database configuration, and generate applications tailored to the contents of the spatial analytic database.