Ontological foundations for geographic information science1

A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 335-350

  Mark, David M ^a   Smith, Barry ^a   Egenhofer, Max J ^b   Hirtle, Stephen C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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