Point-in-Polygon Analysis under Certainty and Uncertainty

GeoInformatica

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 93-114

  Leung, Yee ^a,c,d   Yan, Jianping ^a,b  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d University of Colorado ^*  (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set; Plausibility; Point in polygon query; Precise fuzzy random points; Precise fuzzy random polygons; Probability

Indexed keywords

GIS; POINT-IN-POLYGON;

EID: 0031399692     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009764319102     Document Type: Article

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