Geospatial uncertainty representation: Fuzzy and rough set approaches frederick petry and paul elmore

Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing

Volumn 326, Issue , 2015, Pages 483-497

  Petry, F ^a   Elmore, P ^b  

^a Marine Geosciences Division Geospatial Science and Technology Branch   (United States)

^b NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuzzy sets; Geographic information systems; Indiscernibility relation; Rough sets; Spatial database; Spatial relations; Triangulated irregular networks; Upper and lower approximations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84930208311     PISSN: 14349922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19683-1_24     Document Type: Article

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