InhaltsangabeEnvironments for land application development: issues and design guidelines.- Modelling a hierarchy of space applied to large road networks.- Approximations for a multi-step processing of spatial joins.- First experiences with GEOSTORE, an information system for geologically defined geometries.- The DOMUS project - Building an OODB GIS for environmental control.- Virtual geographic information system (VGIS).- Multiple representation modelling and querying.- Surface modelling with guaranteed consistency - An object-based approach.- Hierarchical hypersurface modeling.- Spatial reallocation of global gridded climate datasets.- Development of specialized geographical information systems for the analysis of large scale radioecological accidents.- On quality paths on polyhedral terrains.- Algorithms for automated extraction of man-made objects from raster image data in a GIS.- A prototype spatial data environment for urban design.- Knowledge-based systems coupled with geographic information systems.- Sustained spatial data management in real-world projects - A research focus.- A storage manager for the development of spatial data structures.- CARTECH: a prototype of geographical information system.- COSIMA A network based architecture for GIS.- The XYZ GeoServer for geometric computation.- Patchwork - A query-driven locally adaptive data space partitioning.- Recognition of urban roads on large-scale maps: the prototypical cases.- Intelligent decision support based on GIS: The EcoRisk Project.- Optimizing spatial data structures for static data.- A hybrid pointerless representation of quadtrees for efficient processing of window queries.- Optimization issues in R-tree construction.- VisTool: A visualization tool for spatial access structures.- Relation-based information processing with symbolic spatial indexes.