Automatic Correlation of USGS (U.S. Geological Survey) Digital Line Graph Geographic Features to GNIS (Geographic Names Information System) Names Data.

Abstract

An accelerating interest in automatic name placement has revealed a growing need for the creation of cartographic data bases. An effort has been made to creat such a data base from two extent types of digitized USGS maps data. Features are defined by geographic data stored as graphic elements in the USGS 1:2,000,000 Digital Line Graph data files. These features are then used as a set onto which names extracted from the Geographic Names Information System data files are mapped. This mapping serves as a cartographic data base, supplying both a label and a graphic description of specific geographic features. Automatic generation of this data base draws nearer the realization of automated map generation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1986
Accession Number
ADA192787

Entities

People

  • Andrew M. Heard

Organizations

  • Battelle Memorial Institute

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Automatic
  • Classification
  • Databases
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Expert Systems
  • Feature Extraction
  • Feature Selection
  • Grids
  • Identification
  • Image Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Lists (Data Structures)
  • New York
  • Populated Places
  • Security
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Computer Vision.
  • International Journalism and Media Studies.