Comparing area and shape distortion on polyhedral-based recursive partitions of the sphere

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 805-827

  White, Denis ^a   Kimerling, A JON ^a   Sahr, Kevin ^a   Song, Lian ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MAPPING METHOD;

EID: 0032468023     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/136588198241518     Document Type: Article

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