On geodetic distance computations in spatial modeling

Biometrics

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 617-625

  Banerjee, Sudipto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlation functions; Geodetic distances; Geographical Information Systems; Isotropic models; Map projections; Spatial range; Spherical coordinates

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISTANCE COMPUTATION; GEODETIC DISTANCES; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; ISOTROPIC MODELS; MAP PROJECTION; SPATIAL MODELLING; SPATIAL RANGE; SPHERICAL COORDINATES;

GEODESY;

GEODESY; GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ASTRONOMY; CALCULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

EID: 20744452749     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00320.x     Document Type: Review

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