Title :
Assessment on uncertainty of multi-scale representation of point cluster
Author :
Xu, Feng ; He, Jianhua ; Zhang, Shengnan
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Urban & Environ. Sci., Xinyang Normal Univ., Xinyang, China
Abstract :
In this paper, it firstly establishes the assessment contents on uncertainty of multi-scale representation of point cluster around the process of multi-scale representation of point cluster and its spatial analysis, which includes positional uncertainty and uncertainty of spatial analysis conclusions; the assessment index K and the quantitative model of positional uncertainty related to point cluster and its multi-scale representation are established afterwards, and methods for assessing uncertainty on spatial analysis conclusions of point cluster in different scales have been derived according to error propagation law; in the last part of the paper, the changing law of positional uncertainty and uncertainty of spatial analysis conclusions in the up-scaling of point cluster is concluded, which makes up the weakness that the existing quality assessment methods of point object generalization don´t consider the uncertainty of point cluster itself and its spatial analysis conclusions. And it provides not only theoretical foundation for quality assessment of multi-scale representation on geographic point cluster data, but also reference standards for its quality control and spatial decisions.
Keywords :
data structures; geographic information systems; pattern clustering; quality control; geographic point cluster data; multiscale representation; point object generalization; quality assessment; spatial analysis; uncertainty assessment; Clustering algorithms; Educational institutions; Indexes; Mean square error methods; Quality assessment; Spatial databases; Uncertainty; Data Uncertainty; Location Data; Multi-Scale Representation; Point Cluster; Spatial Distribution;
Conference_Titel :
Geoinformatics, 2010 18th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7301-4
DOI :
10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567474