Defining a threshold value for maximum spatial information loss of masked geo-data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 572-590

  Kounadi, Ourania ^a   Leitner, Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime data; Geographical masks; Location privacy; Perceived similarity; Spatial error

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941884744     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi4020572     Document Type: Article

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