TerraLib Programming Tutorial

Programming Tutorial TerraLib 3.1.3 TerraLib Time http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/deed.pt This material is distributed under a Creative Commons License Contents1. Introduction 2. Conceptual Model 3. Geographic Databases 3.1 TeDatabase and Drivers 3.2 TerraLib database model 4. Layer 5. Cartographic Projection 6. Geometric Representation 6.1 Geometries Model 6.2 Geometry Storage Model 7. Descriptive Attributes 7.1 Static Tables 7.2 External Tables 8. Accessing a TerraLib database 8.1 Access using the Layer 8.2 Access using the TeDatabase class 8.2.1 The class TeDatabasePortal 9. Theme 9.1 View 9.2 Visual 9.3 Grouping of objects 10. Raster data 10.1. Storage in a TerraLib database 11. Spatial operations 11.1. Generic API to execute spatial operations 12. Dealing with spatio-temporal data 12.1. Data structures to represent spatio-temporal data 12.2. A querier mechanism to retrieve spatio-temporal data: TeQuerier 13. Analysis and spatial statistics 13.1. Proximity Matrix 13.2. Spatial Statistics 14. Bibliography 1. Introduction This tutorial describes the TerraLib library in its more relevant aspects, including its conceptual model of a geographical database, its physical model of storing geometries and descriptive attributes and the mechanisms to manipulate it in different abstraction levels. TerraLib is an open source ...