Comparison of four line-based positional assessment methods by means of synthetic data

GeoInformatica

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 221-243

  Ariza López, Francisco Javier ^a   Mozas Calvache, Antonio Tomás ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Buffer overlay methods; Positional accuracy assessment; Positional control by line elements; Spatial data quality

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHODS; BUFFER OVERLAY METHODS; GENERAL SOLUTIONS; HAUSDORFF DISTANCE; LINE-BASED METHOD; MEAN DISTANCES; NUMERICAL RESULTS; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; POSITIONAL CONTROL; SHAPE FEATURES; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DATA QUALITY; SYNTHETIC DATA;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; RANDOM ERRORS;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA QUALITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; POSITIONING SYSTEM; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84856321109     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10707-011-0130-y     Document Type: Article

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