Geospatial conceptualisation: A cross-cultural analysis on portuguese and american geographical categorisations

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3534 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 196-212

  Pires, Paulo ^a  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cross Cultural analysis; Geographical information systems

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; INTEROPERABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS; STUDENTS;

CONCEPTUALISATIONS; CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS; NON-EXPERT SUBJECTS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 36849087946     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11496168_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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