Object-oriented modeling of coastal environmental information
Titel:
Object-oriented modeling of coastal environmental information
Auteur:
Kucera, Gail Langran
Verschenen in:
Marine geodesy
Paginering:
Jaargang 18 (1995) nr. 3 pagina's 183-196
Jaar:
1995-07
Inhoud:
This article examines how to model coastal environmental information within a geographic information system (GIS). The marine environment offers particular challenges to a GIS because of fuzziness, dynamics, and a full three dimensions. Object-oriented systems provide a richer descriptive environment than the layered, map-based approach, because they permit numerical modeling of entities and interrelationships. Such methods are useful to describe fuzziness, dimensionality, and temporal characteristics such as motion, cycles, fluid dynamics, and historical and predicted change.
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