VARIANT: A system for Terrain modeling at variable resolution

GeoInformatica

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 287-315

  De Floriani, L ^a   Magillo, P ^a   Puppo, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Level of detail; Multiresolution structures; Query operations; Terrain modeling

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; GIS; NETWORK DESIGN; TERRAIN;

EID: 0034519285     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009805426595     Document Type: Article

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