Abstract: Aiming at the need of very large spatial database applications and taking notice of the disadvantagesf existing spatial indexes, the thesis introduces an improved R*-tree spatial indexing structure after addressing the related concepts, data structures, algorithms, and performannalyses of R-tree and R*-tree. This paper gave a more efficient algorithm which analyses the shortcoming of R*-tree spatial index algorithm. The experiment results show that improved R*-tree is better than the original R*-tree in index efficiency.

Key words: spatial indexing, spatial database, R-tree, R*-tree

摘要： 针对大型空间数据库应用的需求及己有空间索引技术的不足，在论述R-树及R*-树索引技术的相关概念、数据结构、算法描述及性能分析的基础上，提出了一种改进的R*-树空间索引结构。研究结果表明：改进后的R*-树与原始的R*-树相比具有更高的性能。

关键词: 空间索引；空间数据库；R-树；R*-树