A shape-based buffering method

Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 399-412

  Mu, Lan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; GIS; METHODOLOGY; PLANNING METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 44949219378     PISSN: 02658135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/b33046     Document Type: Article

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