Exploratory geospatial data analysis using the GeoSOM suite

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 218-232

  Henriques, Roberto ^a   Bacao, Fernando ^a   Lobo, Victor ^a,b  

^a NOVA INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SCHOOL NOVA IMS   (Portugal)

^b Academia Naval Almada   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Geographic knowledge discovery; GeoSOM; Self Organizing Maps; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

CENSUS DATA; CLUSTER-BASED; EMERGING PATTERNS; EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SCIENCE; GEOSOM; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL PATTERNS; USER INTERACTION;

CONFORMAL MAPPING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA MINING; DATABASE; GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84858800256     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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