Advancements in the field of information technology have made it easy to collect huge amounts of data describing the movement of objects, e.g., vehicles, air planes, robots, cell-phone users, natural phenomena such as cyclones or snowstorms, historic developments (e.g., the exact spatial location of certain countries), or – last but not least – body movements and processes within the human body. In consequence, the problem how to organize such data and how to analyze it comes to the fore. This lecture targets at exactly this subject matter.