Definitions of natural-language spatial relations in GIS

Geomatics and Information Science of Wuhan University

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 533-538

  Du, Shihong ^a   Wang, Qiao ^b   Li, Zhijiang ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF REMOTE SENSING APPLICATIONS   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Detailed direction relations; natural language spatial relations; Direction relations; Topological relations

Indexed keywords

GIS;

EID: 21844471010     PISSN: 16718860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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