Knowledge discovery from area-class resource maps: Capturing prototype effects

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 223-237

  Qi, Feng ^a   Zhu, A Xing ^b,c   Pei, Tao ^b   Qin, Chengzhi ^b   Burt, James E ^c  

^a KEAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONFORMAL MAPPING; DATA MINING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MAPS; MINING; OPTICAL PROJECTORS;

CASE STUDIES; DATA MINING METHODS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATIONS; INDETERMINATE BOUNDARIES; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERIES; KNOWLEDGE DISCOVERY PROCESSES; NON UNIFORMS; PROTOTYPE THEORIES; RESOURCE MAPS; SOIL MAPS; SPATIAL VARIATIONS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE; MAPPING; MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION;

EID: 56849106173     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304008786140533     Document Type: Article

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