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dasymetric

dasymetric adjective: of or relating to a method of thematic mapping that uses areal symbols to classify volumetric data in a spatial manner.

Adjective

dasymetric (not comparable)

  1. Of or relating to a method of thematic mapping that uses areal symbols to classify volumetric data in a spatial manner.
    • A final issue that must be considered in the dasymetric approach is error in the classification of the satellite image.2003, Victor Mesev, Remotely-Sensed Cities, page 151
    • Therefore, the spatial redistribution of population and other sociodemographic data, as we will focus our discussion in this chapter, involves two transformation processes: dasymetric mapping, which involves data disaggregation, to in turn enable areal interpolation, which involves data...2011, Xiaojun Yang, Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Origin of dasymetric

Coined by its inventor, Benjamin (Veniamin) Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in 1911, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “thick with leaves, dense”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

Questions about dasymetric

What does dasymetric mean?
Dasymetric means of or relating to a method of thematic mapping that uses areal symbols to classify volumetric data in a spatial manner.
What part of speech is dasymetric?
Dasymetric is an adjective.

Words near dasymetric in the dictionary

  1. dasydytid
  2. dasylirion
  3. dasylirions
  4. dasymeter
  5. dasymeters
  6. dasymetric
  7. dasymetrically
  8. dasyphyllous
  9. dasypodid
  10. dasypodids
  11. dasyproctid

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