Locating place names from place descriptions

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2509-2532

  Vasardani, Maria ^a   Winter, Stephan ^a   Richter, Kai Florian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

gazetteers; geographic information retrieval; georeferencing; place names; spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

GIS; PLACE NAME; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL NETWORK; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84887118875     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.785550     Document Type: Article

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