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SpatialNews.com Press Release
Outstanding response to Laser-Scan academic programme
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Cambridge, UK, 30th July 2003. Laser-Scan's Radius Academic Programme has
achieved an impressive roll call since its inception less than a year ago.
The latest addition to Laser-Scan's academic family is the Ohio State
University where students will be conducting research on simplicial and
other cell complexes. Various topological queries like adjacency and
connectivity will be reviewed as combinatorial rather than geometric
operations. In this instance the topology is stored independently of
geometric data so that topology is preserved through various mathematical
transformations meaning that the interior, boundary and exterior of each and
every object can be viewed as being made up of a set of these cells. MapInfo
Professional is used to view and edit the data.
As part of this research a GIS implementation based on simplicial and other
cell complexes is being carried out using Oracle Object-Relational database
technology.
Among the other universities taking part are University College London,
Technical University of Delft, University of Arkansas and University of
Muenster, all of which are accredited Oracle Spatial Centers of Excellence.
Academic Programme Manager Dan Warner says:
" The Academic Programme is a relatively recent initiative at Laser-Scan
although we have been involved with educational organisations for over 30
years; Laser-Scan itself was a spin-out from Cambridge University.
Now we have formalised our commitment to this important area of the industry
we are reaping the benefit of valuable insight from research projects, as
well as providing an opportunity to share our extensive knowledge of complex
geospatial information technologies."
The Radius Academic Programme is designed to allow students and researchers
to work in an open standards environment and use various interoperable
tools, such as the Oracle9i database, SQL, PL/SQL, XML and Java.
The Programme establishes a network of universities working with Laser-Scan
worldwide and is intended to allow for an open exchange of ideas and
information. This exchange is facilitated through open correspondence,
presentations and reports.
For more information about the Programme please visit:
http://www.radius.laser-scan.com/partners/academic/index.htm or contact
academic-programme@laser-scan.com
www.laser-scan.com
Contact: Lisa May
Tel: +44 (0)1223 420414
Fax : +44 (0)1223 420044
Email : lisa.may@laser-scan.com
About Laser-Scan
Laser-Scan delivers world-class, innovative business solutions for
geographic information. Our technology is the result of over 25 years
experience in the development of market-leading database products.
Laser-Scan offers a new approach to exploiting location data in enterprise
information architectures.
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