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List <strong>of</strong> Figures<br />

2.1 Point feature [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

2.2 Line feature [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />

2.3 Polygon feature representing parcels [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

2.4 Grid <strong>of</strong> cells in raster data [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

2.5 <strong>Raster</strong> data [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6<br />

2.6 Multiband raster data [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2.7 Surface expressed by contour lines [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />

2.8 Surface expressed by contour bands [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.9 Surface expressed by raster data [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.10 Surface expressed by TIN layers [27]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8<br />

2.11 Vector image at various scales. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9<br />

2.12 <strong>The</strong> original vector image is on the left side. <strong>The</strong> upper-right image illustrates magnification<br />

<strong>of</strong> 7x as a vector image. <strong>The</strong> lower-right image illustrates the same magnification<br />

as a raster image [29]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />

2.13 <strong>Raster</strong> image in zooming [28]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11<br />

2.14 Multiple layers geographic representation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.15 <strong>The</strong>mes <strong>for</strong> a area [30]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />

2.16 Georeferencing a geographic object [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />

2.17 <strong>The</strong> location <strong>of</strong> the measured point (in red) is latitude plus 40 degrees and longitude<br />

plus 50 degrees [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

2.18 Parallels lines <strong>of</strong> latitude and meridians line <strong>of</strong> longitude [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14<br />

2.19 2D Cartesian coordinate system. [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

2.20 3D Cartesian coordinate system [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />

2.21 Different methods <strong>for</strong> map projection [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

2.22 Distorsion in map projection [26]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16<br />

2.23 Mapping <strong>of</strong> homicides in Washington D.C. [18] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

2.24 Groundwater level change <strong>of</strong> the High Plains Aquifer, 1980-95 [31]. . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />

3.1 Geo<strong>Raster</strong> data architecture [3]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />

3.2 <strong>PostGIS</strong> <strong>Raster</strong> data architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />

3.3 Physical storage <strong>of</strong> Geo<strong>Raster</strong> data [3]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

3.4 Physical storage <strong>of</strong> <strong>PostGIS</strong> <strong>Raster</strong> data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22<br />

3.5 Oracle Geo<strong>Raster</strong> georeference approach [14]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

3.6 <strong>PostGIS</strong> <strong>Raster</strong> georeference approach [14]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23<br />

4.1 <strong>PostGIS</strong> <strong>Raster</strong> implementation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

4.2 In<strong>for</strong>mation representation using raster data [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

4.3 Basemap raster <strong>for</strong> road data [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

4.4 Surface map raster [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

4.5 <strong>The</strong>matic map raster [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

4.6 Tree attribute [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

4.7 On the left side: cell values applied at the center point. On the right side: cell values<br />

applied <strong>for</strong> the whole square. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

4.8 <strong>Raster</strong> cell values [16]. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />

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