A geodetic database design architecture

Abstract

The geodetic community has been very much exposed to database technologiesdue to their involvement in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), but apart from that, newdevelopments in database methodology seems to have little impact on the present work of manygeodesists. This thesis tries to catch up with recent trends in database design and appliesmodern ideas and tools to the architecture of a geodetic database as part of the current researchof the Geodetic Department of Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Research Institute. Indoing so, the overall goal of the thesis is to design a geodetic database architecture, as it isrequired by today's different geodetic measuring techniques, which produce a great amount ofinhomogeneous and time-dependent data. The resulting database design is the foundation of allother data processing procedures like combined least-square adjustments, data analysis or dataevaluation. With this architecture, the data can be processed in a very precise, fast andeconomical way. It also serves as the starting point for creating the KAndilli WindowsAdjustment Program (KAWAP) as an inter-active object-oriented database, computation andgraphics Windows program for geodetic purposes.