Towards a unifying formalisation of geographic representation: The object-field model with uncertainty and semantics

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1811-1828

  Voudouris, Vlasios ^a  

^a LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Field based models; Field object representation; Geographic information science; Object oriented approach; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

GIS; MODELING; SPATIAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 78649623598     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.488237     Document Type: Article

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