Improving spatial accuracy of roadway networks and geocoded addresses

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 585-601

  Wu, Jun ^a   Funk, Tami H ^b   Lurmann, Frederick W ^b   Winer, Arthur M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SONOMA TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

EXPOSURE MISCLASSIFICATION; GEO CODING; GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION; ROAD NETWORK; ROADWAY NETWORKS; SPATIAL ACCURACY; TRAFFIC ACTIVITIES; TRAFFIC-RELATED POLLUTANTS; U.S GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; US GEOLOGICAL SURVEY;

GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHM; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GIS; GPS; POLLUTANT; TRAFFIC EMISSION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 33745240076     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2005.00236.x     Document Type: Article

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