The development of an areal interpolation ArcGIS extension and a comparative study

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 644-663

  Qiu, Fang ^a   Zhang, Caiyun ^b   Zhou, Yuhong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AREAL INTERPOLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RASTER; SOFTWARE; VECTOR;

EID: 84866853826     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.49.5.644     Document Type: Article

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