Spatial Similarity Relations in Multi-scale Map Spaces

• Main Authors: Yan, Haowen (Author), Li, Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Geography.; Computer graphics.; Geographical information systems.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Applications of Mathematics.; Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics.

How does one determine how similar two maps are? This book aims at the theory of spatial similarity relations and its application in automated map generalization, including the definitions, classification and features of spatial similarity relations. Included also are calculation models of spatial s...