The search for boundaries on maps: Color processing and map pattern effects

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-30

  Bunch, Rick ^a   Lloyd, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR; MAPPING;

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

MAP PATTERN EFFECTS;

MAPS;

EID: 0033622617     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304000783548046     Document Type: Article

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