Effect of category aggregation on map comparison

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3234, Issue , 2004, Pages 251-268

  Pontius Jr , Robert Gilmore ^a   Malizia, Nicholas R ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; DATA AGGREGATION; ECOLOGICAL INFERENCES; HUMAN ENVIRONMENT; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE; MAP COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL FACTS; REGIONAL OBSERVATORY;

LAND USE;

EID: 17744367553     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-30231-5_17     Document Type: Article

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