Extracting digital data from the first land utilisation survey of great britain - methods, issues and potential

Applied Geography

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 959-968

  Baily, Brian ^a   Riley, Mark ^a   Aucott, Paula ^a   Southall, Humphrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartography; Digital data; Dudley stamp; Historical mapping; Image processing; Land use; Vector data

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; HISTORICAL CARTOGRAPHY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LAND USE; SURVEY;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 79951955981     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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