A landform-based approach for the representation of terrain silhouettes

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 260-266

  Chevriaux, Yann ^a   Saux, Eric ^a   Claramunt, Christophe ^a  

^a Naval Academy Research Institute   (France)

Author keywords

GIS; Landforms; Qualitative shape analysis; Terrain modelling

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; EARTH (PLANET); GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PRIMITIVES; QUALITATIVE SHAPE ANALYSIS; SILHOUETTES; TERRAIN MODELLING;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 33644598030     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1097064.1097101     Document Type: Conference Paper

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