An algorithm for generating geometric buffers for vector feature layers

Geo-Spatial Information Science

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 130-138

  Bhatia, Sumeet ^a   Vira, Viral ^a   Choksi, Deepak ^a   Venkatachalam, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY   (India)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Geometric buffer; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISSOLUTION; VECTORS;

GEOMETRIC BUFFER; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SWEEP LINES; VECTOR ALGEBRA;

GEOMETRY;

ALGORITHM; GEOMETRY; GIS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VECTOR;

EID: 84881006339     PISSN: 10095020     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10095020.2012.747643     Document Type: Article

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