ArcGIS Help 10.1 - ST

Definition

ST_SymmetricDiff takes two ST_Geometry objects and returns a geometry object that is composed of the parts of the source objects that are not common to both.

Syntax

sde.st_symmetricdiff (g1 sde.st_geometry, g2 sde.st_geometry)

Return type

ST_Geometry

Example

For a special report, the county supervisor must determine the sensitive areas and hazardous site radii areas that aren't intersected.

The sensitive_areas table contains an id column in addition to the shape column, which stores the institutions' polygon geometries.

The hazardous_sites table stores the identity of the sites in the id column, while the actual geographic location of each site is stored in the site point column.

CREATE TABLE sensitive_areas (id integer, 
                              shape sde.st_geometry); 

CREATE TABLE hazardous_sites (id integer, 
                              site sde.st_geometry);

INSERT INTO SENSITIVE_AREAS VALUES (
1,
sde.st_geometry ('polygon ((20 30, 30 30, 30 40, 20 40, 20 30))', 0)
);

INSERT INTO SENSITIVE_AREAS VALUES (
2,
sde.st_geometry ('polygon ((30 30, 30 50, 50 50, 50 30, 30 30))', 0)
);

INSERT INTO SENSITIVE_AREAS VALUES (
3,
sde.st_geometry ('polygon ((40 40, 40 60, 60 60, 60 40, 40 40))', 0)
);

INSERT INTO HAZARDOUS_SITES VALUES (
4,
sde.st_geometry ('point (60 60)', 0)
);

INSERT INTO HAZARDOUS_SITES VALUES (
5,
sde.st_geometry ('point (30 30)', 0)
);

The ST_Buffer function generates a buffer surrounding the hazardous waste site points. The ST_SymmetricDiff function returns the polygons of the buffered hazardous waste sites and the sensitive areas that don't intersect.

Oracle

SELECT sa.id SA_ID,hs.id HS_ID,
sde.st_area (sde.st_symmetricdiff (sde.st_buffer (hs.site, .1), sa.shape)) AREA_NO_INT
FROM HAZARDOUS_SITES hs, SENSITIVE_AREAS sa
WHERE hs.id = 4;

     SA_ID    HS_ID   AREA_NO_INT

         1        4    100.031393
         2        4    400.031393
         3        4    400.015697

PostgreSQL

SELECT sa.id AS SA_ID, hs.id AS HS_ID,
sde.st_area (sde.st_symmetricdiff (sde.st_buffer (hs.site, .1), sa.shape)) AS "no intersection"
FROM hazardous_sites hs, sensitive_areas sa
WHERE hs.id = 4;

    sa_id     hs_id   no intersection

         1        4    100.031393502001
         2        4    400.031393502001
         3        4    400.01569751

The symmetric difference of the hazardous waste sites and the sensitive areas results in the subtraction of the intersected areas.

6/19/2015