The construction of the spatio-temporal database of the ancient Silk Road within Xinjiang province during the Han and Tang dynasties

35th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment

地球科学;生态环境科学

Bi, Jiantao^1 ; Luo, Guilin^2 ; Wang, Xingxing^1 ; Zhu, Zuojia^2

Key Laboratory of Digital Earth, Centre for Earth Observation and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, No.9th Deng Zhuang South Road Haidian District, Beijing, 100094, China^1

Surveying and Land Information Engineering of Central South University, College of Earth Science and Information Physics, No. 932 Lushan South Road, Changsha City, Hunan Province 410083, China^2

关键词: Attribute information;    Government institutions;    Modern information technologies;    Network technologies;    Political exchange;    Spatial informations;    Spatio-temporal database;    Western civilization;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012169/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/17/1/012169

学科分类：环境科学（综合）

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

As the bridge over the Chinese and Western civilization, the ancient Silk Road has made a huge contribution to cultural, economic, political exchanges between China and western countries. In this paper, we treated the historical period of Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty as the research time domain, and the Western Regions' countries that were existed along the Silk Road at the mean time as the research spatial domain. Then we imported these data into the SQL Server database we constructed, from which we could either query the attribute information such as population, military force, the era of the Central Plains empire, the significant events taking place in the country and some related attribute information of these events like the happened calendar year in addition to some related spatial information such as the present location, the coordinates of the capital and the territory by inputting the name of the Western countries. At the same time we could query the significant events, government institution in Central Plains and the existent Western countries at the mean time by inputting the calendar year. Based on the database, associated with GIS, RS, Flex, C# and other related information technology and network technology, we could not only browsing, searching and editing the information of the ancient Silk Road in Xinjiang Province during the Han and Tang Dynasties, but preliminary analysing as well. This is the combination of archaeology and modern information technology, and the database could also be a reference to further study, research and practice in the related fields in the future.