GraCT: A Grammar based Compressed representation of Trajectories

Abstract

We present a compressed data structure to store free trajectories of moving objects (ships over the sea, for example) allowing spatio-temporal queries. Our method, GraCT, uses a $k^2$-tree to store the absolute positions of all objects at regular time intervals (snapshots), whereas the positions between snapshots are represented as logs of relative movements compressed with Re-Pair. Our experimental evaluation shows important savings in space and time with respect to a fair baseline.

This research has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 BIRDS GA No. 690941

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