Claire Ellul was appointed to a research project at University College London on "Extending SQL for 3D Topology."

Through CASE (Co-operative Award in Science and Engineering: an agreement between national funding bodies and commercial organizations to jointly fund research projects at qualifying universities), Laser-Scan announced the appointment of Claire Ellul to a research project at University College London (UCL) on "Extending SQL for 3D Topology."

The collaborative research between UCL and Laser-Scan will focus on efficient storage of 3D spatial information in a relational database environment. In particular, the project will explore which areas of GIS applications will benefit the most from efficient handling of topology in 3D and how to extend 2D SQL queries to include handling of 3D topological relationships.