SCHEDULE for CSL 720 Spring 2018

The schedule indicates the concepts and material to be (un)covered in each week under the column labeled "Topics". It also indicates important dates when certain course deliverables are due.

Sno Lecture Topics Slides and relavant material Supplementary Material
1 Introduction  
Lecture Slides
Article on Map Projections
Article on GPS systems,
Article on Geoid for measuring heights
2 Fundamental spatial concepts Lecture slides Part 1,Part 2  
3 Representation and Algorithms (I) Lecture Slides Part 1, Part 2
Paper on rastor thining (read the first three pages)
 
4 Representation and Algorithms (II) Lecture slides Part 1 Part 2
Supplimentary material for Fortune algo
 
5 Spatial query languages Lecture slides Part 1
From Prof. Shekhar et al. UMN
 
6 Spatial indexing techniques (I) Lecture slides Part 1
More examples on Grid files
Article on Space filling curves
7 Midterm Examination week (Feb-23 -- March-01) Practice Questions sample1, sample2
8 Spatial indexing techniques (II) Lecture slides part 1
Paper on Rtree
comparing Rtree and Quad tree
Paper on R*tree
9 Spatial Query Processing & Optimization Lecture slides part 1
Paper on NN queries.
slides on NN algorithms from Prof. Shahabi USC
 
10 Spatial networks (I) Lecture slides part 1  
11 Spatial networks (II) Refer class material
on bi-directional search
 
12 Spatial data mining(I) Lecture slides part 1
paper on scan statistic
Refer first 5 pages (until Section 3.1) of the paper
Presentation on Moran's I
 
13 Trend Topics:
Spatio-temporal Graphs
Lecture slides Part 1
ingore the optional material in slides
 
14 Final exams (May-07 -- May-15)