A semantic-rich multi-scale information model for topography

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 739-763

  Stoter, Jantien ^a   Visser, Thomas ^b   van Oosterom, Peter ^a   Quak, Wilko ^a   Bakker, Nico ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Kadaster   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Generalisation; Knowledge formalisation; Multi scale; Multi scale semantics; Spatial data modelling

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; DATA SET; KNOWLEDGE; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 79960379887     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2010.490218     Document Type: Article

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