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A Hierarchical Coordinate System for Geoprocessing and Cartography

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  • © 1999

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Authors:
  1. Geoffrey H. Dutton
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  • Theoretical approach with several applications
  • Contains a series of experiments in map generalization

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences (LNEARTH, volume 79)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Introduction and problem statement

    Pages 1-18

  3. Historical and conceptual background

    Pages 19-39

  4. Computational aspects of a quaternary triangular mesh

    Pages 41-70

  5. Using QTM to support map generalization

    Pages 71-103

  6. QTM scale filtering: Tests and evaluations

    Pages 105-130

  7. New approaches to cartographic questions

    Pages 131-148

  8. Back Matter

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About this book

When spatial data is digitized for use in geographic information systems and other software, information about its original scale, resolution and accuracy is frequently lost. As a result, using such information at different scales and combining it with data from other sources may be difficult. Mapping vector data at smaller than the original scale requires its generalization, which is usually handled by post-processing in ways that are only weakly supported by databases. The models and methods described in this book overcome many such problems by providing a multi-resolution data representation that allows retrieval of map data at a hierarchy of scales, as well as documenting the accuracy of every spatial coordinate.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: A Hierarchical Coordinate System for Geoprocessing and Cartography

  • Authors: Geoffrey H. Dutton

  • Series Title: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0011617

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-64980-9Published: 20 October 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-49802-5Published: 23 November 2005

  • Series ISSN: 0930-0317

  • Series E-ISSN: 1613-2580

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 84 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Earth Sciences, general

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