Thirty Years of Research on Spatial Data Quality: Achievements, Failures, and Opportunities

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 387-400

  Devillers, Rodolphe ^a   Stein, Alfred ^b   Bédard, Yvan ^c   Chrisman, Nicholas ^c   Fisher, Peter ^d   Shi, Wenzhong ^e  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; PANEL DISCUSSIONS; SPATIAL DATA QUALITY;

DATA REDUCTION;

ACADEMIC RESEARCH; DATA QUALITY; FUTURE PROSPECT; GIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 77958613747     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01212.x     Document Type: Article

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