ST_Intersection
Definition
ST_Intersection takes two ST_Geometry objects and returns the intersection set as an ST_Geometry object.
Syntax
sde.st_intersection (g1 sde.st_geometry, g2 sde.st_geometry)
Return type
ST_Geometry
Example
The fire marshal must obtain the areas of the hospitals, schools, and nursing homes intersected by the radius of a possible hazardous waste contamination.
The hospitals, schools, and nursing homes are stored in the sensitive_areas table that is created with the CREATE TABLE statement that follows. The zone column, defined as a polygon, stores the outline of each of the sensitive areas.
The hazardous sites are stored in the hazardous_sites table created with the CREATE TABLE statement that follows. The location column, defined as a point, stores a location that is the geographic center of each hazardous site.
CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, zone sde.st_geometry); CREATE TABLE hazardous_sites (id integer, location sde.st_geometry); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES ( 1, sde.st_polygon ('polygon ((20 30, 30 30, 30 40, 20 40, 20 30))', 0) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES ( 2, sde.st_polygon ('polygon ((30 30, 30 50, 50 50, 50 30, 30 30))', 0) ); INSERT INTO sensitive_areas VALUES ( 3, sde.st_polygon ('polygon ((40 40, 40 60, 60 60, 60 40, 40 40))', 0) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES ( 4, sde.st_point ('point (60 60)', 0) ); INSERT INTO hazardous_sites VALUES ( 5, sde.st_point ('point (30 30)', 0) );
The ST_Buffer function generates a buffer surrounding the hazardous waste sites. The ST_Intersection function generates polygons from the intersection of the buffered hazardous waste sites and the sensitive areas.
Oracle
SELECT sa.id, sde.st_astext (sde.st_intersection (sde.st_buffer (hs.location, .1), sa.zone)) Intersection FROM SENSITIVE_AREAS sa, HAZARDOUS_SITES hs WHERE hs.id = 5 AND sde.st_astext (sde.st_intersection (sde.st_buffer (hs.location, .1), sa.zone)) NOT LIKE '%EMPTY%'; ID INTERSECTION 1 POLYGON ((29.90000000 30.00000000, 30.00000000 30.00000000, 30.00000000 30.100 2 POLYGON ((30.00000000 30.00000000, 30.10000000 30.00000000, 30.09978589 30.006
PostgreSQL
SELECT sa.id, sde.st_astext (sde.st_intersection (sde.st_buffer (hs.location, .1), sa.zone)) AS Intersection FROM sensitive_areas sa, hazardous_sites hs WHERE hs.id = 5 AND sde.st_astext (sde.st_intersection (sde.st_buffer (hs.location, .1), sa.zone))::varchar NOT LIKE '%EMPTY%'; id intersection 1 POLYGON ((29.90000000 30.00000000, 30.00000000 30.00000000, 30.00000000 30.100 2 POLYGON ((30.00000000 30.00000000, 30.10000000 30.00000000, 30.09978589 30.006