Enhancing spatial accuracy of mobile phone data using multi-temporal dasymetric interpolation

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 1630-1651

  Järv, Olle ^a   Tenkanen, Henrikki ^a   Toivonen, Tuuli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

call detail records; dasymetric modelling; Mobile phone data; spatial interpolation; spatio temporal data modelling

Indexed keywords

INTERPOLATION; MOBILE PHONE; MODELING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85011840684     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2017.1287369     Document Type: Article

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