Spatiotemporal Aggregate Functions for Temporal GIS

Aggregation is an operation that returns a result value through a computational process on the data which satisfy a certain condition. Recently many applications use aggregation to analyze spatiotemporal data. Although spatiotemporal data change its states over time, previous aggregation works have only dealt with spatial or temporal aspect of object. In this paper we propose spatiotemporal aggregate functions that operate on spatiotemporal data. The proposed algorithms are evaluated through some implementation results. The experiment results show that the proposed aggregate functions are applicable to spatiotemporal data efficiently.