Toward quantitative measures for the semantic quality of polygon generalization

Cartographica

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-147

  Cheng, Tao ^a,b   Li, Zhilin ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Generalization; Measures; Quality assessment; Semantics

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; GEOMETRY; POLYGON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 33746703645     PISSN: 03177173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/0172-6733-227U-8155     Document Type: Article

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