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  1. University of Genova, Genova, Italy

    Leila De Floriani & Paola Magillo

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  1. Leila De Floriani
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    Ralf Hartmut Güting

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De Floriani, L., Magillo, P. (2016). Digital Elevation Models. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_129-2

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