A data-synthesis-driven method for detecting and extracting vague cognitive regions

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1245-1271

  Gao, Song ^a   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Montello, Daniel R ^a   Hu, Yingjie ^b   Yang, Jiue An ^c   McKenzie, Grant ^d   Ju, Yiting ^a   Gong, Li ^e   Adams, Benjamin ^f,g   Yan, Bo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

cognitive regions; data synthesis; latent Dirichlet allocation; Place; vagueness

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BORDER REGION; GIS; LATITUDE; SATELLITE DATA;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85008702226     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2016.1273357     Document Type: Article

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