Venice, City of Canals: Characterizing regions through content classification

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 295-314

  Tomko, Martin ^a   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL DATASETS; CONTENT CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHICS; INFORMATION OBJECT; SPATIAL OBJECTS; TEXTUAL ANNOTATIONS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

BENCHMARKING; CLASSIFICATION; DATA SET; GIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE SAMPLE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VENETO; VENEZIA [VENETO]; VENICE;

EID: 67649697705     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2009.01165.x     Document Type: Article

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