Assessment of semantic similarity between land use/land cover classification systems

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 229-246

  Feng, C C ^a   Flewelling, D M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ontology integration; Semantic interoperability; Semantic similarity

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INTEROPERABILITY; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SEMANTICS; URBAN PLANNING;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; DATA-SETS;

LAND USE;

CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; SIMILARITY INDEX;

EID: 1642307196     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0198-9715(03)00020-6     Document Type: Article

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