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Computing Fitness of Use of Geospatial Datasets

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE, USA

    Leen-Kiat Soh & Ashok Samal

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Soh, LK., Samal, A. (2008). Computing Fitness of Use of Geospatial Datasets. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_167

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