Automatic Region Building for Spatial Analysis

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages 29-45

  Guo, Diansheng ^a   Wang, Hu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; EMPIRICAL BAYES; GEOGRAPHICS; HIGH RESOLUTION; REGION BUILDINGS; REGIONALISATION; SMALL AREA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; SYNTHETIC DATASETS;

DISEASES;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; REGIONALIZATION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 79958801999     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2011.01269.x     Document Type: Article

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