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extended k-d tree

(data structure)

Definition: A spatial access method where successive levels are split along different dimensions into nonoverlapping cells. Objects are indexed in all cells they intersect.

See also skd-tree.

Note: After [GG98].

Author: PEB


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Paul E. Black, "extended k-d tree", in Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures [online], Vreda Pieterse and Paul E. Black, eds. 17 December 2004. (accessed TODAY) Available from: http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/extendkdtree.html