Colour-enhanced star plot glyphs: Can salient shape characteristics be overcome?

Cartographica

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 217-232

  Klippel, Alexander ^a   Hardisty, Frank ^a   Li, Rui ^a   Weaver, Chris ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Perceptual salience; Star plot glyphs

Indexed keywords

COLOR; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 70350356337     PISSN: 03177173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/carto.44.3.217     Document Type: Article

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