Reasoning about cardinal directions using grids as qualitative geographic coordinates

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1661, Issue , 1999, Pages 205-220

  Kulik, Lars ^a   Klippel, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Axiomatics; Geography; Geometry; Inferences; Map projections; Qualitative spatial reasoning; Spatial structure

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPUTATION THEORY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMETRY;

AXIOMATICS; GEOGRAPHY; INFERENCES; MAP PROJECTION; QUALITATIVE SPATIAL REASONING; SPATIAL STRUCTURE;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 84957706443     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-48384-5_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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