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 (Aarhus University)
- 2. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Bin Yang (Aarhus University)
- 4. Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{kaul_vldb14,
title = {{Finding Shortest Paths on Terrains by Killing Two Birds with One Stone}},
author = {Kaul, Manohar and Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing and Yang, Bin and Jensen, Christian S.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '14},
volume = {7},
number = {1},
pages = {73--84},
doi = {10.14778/2732232.2732239},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2732232.2732239},
year = {2014}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8,532 | New Lower and Upper Bounds for Shortest Distance Queries on Terrains | 2016 | VLDB | 5.4119882e-05 |
| 10,213 | Constrained Shortest Path Finding on Terrain Surfaces | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 10,314 | Efficient Proximity Queries on Simplified Height Maps | 2026 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,156 | Proximity Queries on Point Clouds using Rapid Construction Path Oracle | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,380 | EAR-Oracle: On Efficient Indexing for Distance Queries between Arbitrary Points on Terrain Surface | 2023 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,993 | Distance Oracle on Terrain Surface | 2017 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,194 | Terrain-Toolkit: A Multi-Functional Tool for Terrain Data | 2014 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,618 | Continuous Monitoring of Nearest Neighbors on Land Surface | 2009 | VLDB | 0.00010207737 |
| 1,619 | Indexing Land Surface for Efficient kNN Query | 2008 | VLDB | 0.00010207737 |
| 8,543 | Finding Shortest Path on Land Surface | 2011 | SIGMOD | 5.4119882e-05 |
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