METHOD FOR ASSISTING DIGITAL VECTORIAL AND RASTER DATA PROCESSING IN A COMPUTER CLUSTER

摘要

The present invention describes a number of methods for assisting the integrated processing of digital raster data (for example, digital images or models) and of digital vectorial data in a computer cluster environment. The number of methods includes a particular distributed indexing strategy for sets of data, as well as various strategies for distributing the processing of spatial context-sensitive data among the distributed sets of data, which depend on the characteristics of the operation to be performed.