External Quality Evaluation of Geographical Applications: An Ontological Approach

Fundamentals of Spatial Data Quality

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 255-270

  Vasseur, Bérengère ^a   Jeansoulin, Robert ^a   Devillers, Rodolphe ^b   Frank, Andrew ^c  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

External quality; Geographical application; Geographical data; Quality definition; Quality requirements

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957975661     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470612156.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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