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Attribute Uncertainty in GIS Data

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Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD 2005)

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Attribute uncertainty may support decision-making and measure the reliability of GIS analysis. This paper presents the attribute uncertainty in GIS data, with a complete perspective of concepts, sources, nature and applicable tools. And some valuable research contents are further given.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. International School of Software, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Shuliang Wang

  2. School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China

    Shuliang Wang & Guoqing Chen

  3. Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

    Wenzhong Shi

  4. School of Remote Sensing Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430072, China

    Hanning Yuan

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  1. School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Block S1, Nanyang Avenue, 639798, Singapore

    Lipo Wang

  2. Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH, Offenbach/Main, Germany

    Yaochu Jin

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Wang, S., Shi, W., Yuan, H., Chen, G. (2005). Attribute Uncertainty in GIS Data. In: Wang, L., Jin, Y. (eds) Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. FSKD 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3614. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11540007_76

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