dasymetric

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adjective

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

OriginAncient Greek δασύς →
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Meanings

adjectivedasymetric (not comparable)
  1. not comparableOf 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
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    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 reaggregation to a set of desired areal units.

    2011, Xiaojun Yang, Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekδασύς“thick with leaves, dense”
  2. Englishdasymetric

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”).

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