Assessing polygon edge integrity |
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Authors: | Steven A Roberts G Brent Hall Paul H Calamai |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Systems Design Engineering, (robertss@netcom.ca), CA;(2) Faculty of Environmental Studies, (gbhall@kupe.uwaterloo.ca), CA;(3) Department of Systems Design Engineering, (phcalama@solstice.uwaterloo.ca), CA;(4) University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1, CA |
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Abstract: | Geographic entities are represented in vector GIS as geometric objects with definite position and sharp, zero or one-dimensional,
boundaries. This representation ignores, and may in fact misrepresent, the underlying properties of many geographic features.
This paper considers a binary classification scheme for ill-defined edges recently suggested by Couclelis (1996). Three initial
perspectives of edge indeterminacy are considered for woodland polygons, namely functionally defined, using Hamming distances
of the indeterminacy properties, and using the weighted trace of the connectivity matrix that defines the simplicial complex
created from the indeterminacy relationships among the woodland polygons and their adjacent polygons. Finally, an analysis
of the relationships created by the binary coding is carried out by examining more closely the connectivity structure of the
simplicial complexes. The usefulness of the approach is discussed in the context of woodland habitat.
Received: 20 March 1999/Accepted: 7 September 1999 |
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Keywords: | : Polygon edge integrity vector GIS adjacency graphs |
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