Storage and manipulation of vague spatial objects using existing GIS functionality
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1 International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), PO Box 6, 7500 AA Enschede, The Netherlands. Email: [dilo,deby]@itc.nl, 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands. Email: [email protected], 3 School of Information Technology, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch Western Australia 6150, Australia. Email: [email protected]
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