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Model generalization is used to derive a more simple and more easy to handle digital representation of geometric features (Grünreich 1995). It is being applied mainly by National Mapping Agencies to derive different levels of representations with less details of their topographic data sets, usually called Digital Landscape Models (DLM’s). Model generalization is also called geodatabase abstraction, as it relates to generating a more simple digital representation of geometric objects in a database, leading to a considerable data reduction. The simplification refers to both the thematic diversity and the geometric complexity of the objects. Among the well known map generalization operations the following subset is used for model generalization: selection, (re-)classification, aggregation, and area collapse. Sometimes, also...
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Sester, M. (2017). Abstraction of Geodatabases. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_13
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