Geographic Information Systems and Surfaces

The Handbook of Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 239-258

  Tate, Nicholas J ^a   Fisher, Peter F ^b   Martin, David J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models (DEMS); Geographic information systems (GIS); Topology; Triangulated irregular networks (TINS); Vector polygon model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890665874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690819.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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