Spatial signatures for geographic feature types: examining gazetteer ontologies using spatial statistics

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 333-355

  Zhu, Rui ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^a   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   McKenzie, Grant ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

gazetteer; geo ontologies; linked data; spatial Signatures; spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; LINKED DATA; ONTOLOGY; SEARCH ENGINES;

FEATURE ENGINEERINGS; FEATURE TYPES; GAZETTEER; GEO ONTOLOGIES; GEOGRAPHICS; LINKED DATUM; ONTOLOGY'S; SPATIAL SEARCH; SPATIAL SIGNATURE; SPATIAL STATISTICS;

DATA INTEGRATION;

GIS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL DATA;

EID: 84977489595     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12232     Document Type: Article

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