A framework to enhance semantic flexibility for analysis of distributed phenomena

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 999-1018

  McIntosh, John ^a   Yuan, M ^b  

^a Metcalf and Eddy   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field object representation; Spatiotemporal data modelling; Spatiotemporal query

Indexed keywords

GIS; METHODOLOGY; RASTER; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

EID: 30844445748     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810500197652     Document Type: Article

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