Use of knowledge acquisition to build wildfire representation in Geographical Information Systems

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 723-746

  Yuan, May ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; WILDFIRE;

EID: 0031404827     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136588197242059     Document Type: Article

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