Computations on an ellipsoid for GIS

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 575-583

  Miller, James R ^a   Gaskins, Tom ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis and visualization; Level of detail modeling; Web based retrieval

Indexed keywords

A-GLOBE; GEOMETRIC MODELING; LEVEL OF DETAIL; LEVEL OF DETAIL MODELING; SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATIONS; SHAPE MODELING;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 73349114315     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3722/cadaps.2009.575-583     Document Type: Article

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