Using sound to represent positional accuracy of address locations

Cartographic Journal

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 308-314

  Bearman, Nick ^a   Lovett, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ArcGIS; positional accuracy; sonification; sound; tone

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARCVIEW; DETECTION METHOD; GIS; POSITIONING SYSTEM; SPATIAL DATA; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78650557229     PISSN: 00087041     EISSN: 17432774     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/000870410X12911302296833     Document Type: Article

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