A new grid-cell-based method for error evaluation of vector-to-raster conversion

Computational Geosciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 539-549

  Liao, Shunbao ^a   Bai, Yan ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Error evaluation; Grid cell; Rasterization

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; LAND COVER; RASTER; VECTOR;

EID: 77955924532     PISSN: 14200597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10596-009-9169-3     Document Type: Article

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