(data structure)
Definition: A generalized BD-tree, hence the name, which stores spatially extended objects as a hierarchy of minimum bounding boxes. It is a balanced multiway tree which serves as a spatial access method.
Generalization (I am a kind of ...)
spatial access method.
Note: After [GG98, page 211].
Author: PEB
Yutaka Ohsawa and Masao Sakauchi, A New Tree Type Data Structure with Homogeneous Nodes Suitable for a Very Large Spatial Database, Proc. Sixth International Conference on Data Engineering, February 5-9, 1990, Los Angeles, California, USA, pages 296-303.
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