A review on the methodology of scaling with Geo-data

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 277-288

  Meng, Bin ^a,b,c   Wang, Jinfeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b BEIJING UNION UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Areal interpolation; Attribute data; Scale; Scaling; Small area statistics

Indexed keywords

AREAL INTERPOLATION; GIS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 22744452341     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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