ABSTRACT
There are many potential application domains for spatiotemporal systems, including environmental change, transportation, socioeconomic and demographic applications, health and epidemiology, multimedia, governance and administration, and defense. In addition to these more traditional spatiotemporal application areas, the increased use of real-time, mobile, and in situ sensors is leading to many new potential applications for spatiotemporal data models and systems. Many of these applications
relate to mobile location-aware and pervasive systems (introduced in Chapter 7).
