Finding Shortest Paths on Terrains by Killing Two Birds with One Stone
Summary: Proposes lower/upper bounds for shortest surface distance on terrains to accelerate terrain-spatial queries. Bounds tighter than prior work prune expensive distances, yielding up to 43x speedups for kNN and reverse kNN in terrain spaces. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Manohar Kaul
- 2. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong
- 3. Bin Yang
- 4. Christian S. Jensen
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,016 | Efficient Proximity Queries on Simplified Height Maps | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 10,941 | Proximity Queries on Point Clouds using Rapid Construction Path Oracle | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 11,177 | EAR-Oracle: On Efficient Indexing for Distance Queries between Arbitrary Points on Terrain Surface | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 11,797 | Distance Oracle on Terrain Surface | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 11,886 | New Lower and Upper Bounds for Shortest Distance Queries on Terrains | 2016 | VLDB | 5.1725247e-05 |
| 12,004 | Terrain-Toolkit: A Multi-Functional Tool for Terrain Data | 2014 | VLDB | 5.1725247e-05 |
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| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,740 | Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Neighbors on Land Surface | 2009 | VLDB | 9.9386368e-05 |
| 1,741 | Indexing Land Surface for Efficient kNN Query | 2008 | VLDB | 9.9386368e-05 |
| 12,180 | Finding Shortest Path on Land Surface | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.1725247e-05 |
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