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Defining a unifying model for describing spatial data at different levels of resolution is a relevant issue in several applications involving spatial data handling. Also, dimension-independence is becoming fundamental in many application contexts. We propose a unifying model for multiresolution description of spatial data which works in arbitrary dimension. Graph-based representations for encoding different instances of the abstract model are described.
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Bertolotto, M., De Floriani, L., Marzano, P. (1995). A unifying framework for multilevel description of spatial data. In: Frank, A.U., Kuhn, W. (eds) Spatial Information Theory A Theoretical Basis for GIS. COSIT 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 988. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_17
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