Title
Finding shortest paths on terrains by killing two birds with one stone
Abstract
With the increasing availability of terrain data, e.g., from aerial laser scans, the management of such data is attracting increasing attention in both industry and academia. In particular, spatial queries, e.g., k-nearest neighbor and reverse nearest neighbor queries, in Euclidean and spatial network spaces are being extended to terrains. Such queries all rely on an important operation, that of finding shortest surface distances. However, shortest surface distance computation is very time consuming. We propose techniques that enable efficient computation of lower and upper bounds of the shortest surface distance, which enable faster query processing by eliminating expensive distance computations. Empirical studies show that our bounds are much tighter than the best-known bounds in many cases and that they enable speedups of up to 43 times for some well-known spatial queries.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.14778/2732219.2732226
VLDB
Field
DocType
Volume
k-nearest neighbors algorithm,Spatial network,Computer science,Terrain,Theoretical computer science,Euclidean geometry,Computation
Journal
7
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
2150-8097
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.48
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manohar Kaul118513.76
Raymond Chi-Wing Wong2130585.98
Bin Yang370634.93
Christian S. Jensen4106511129.45