Extraction of hierachical surface networks from Bilinear surface patches

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 244-263

  Schneider, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; TOPOGRAPHY; TOPOLOGY; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 17344367984     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2005.00638.x     Document Type: Article

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