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Interoperability among Heterogeneous Geographic Objects

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The integration of geographic objects stored as distinct data sources with heterogeneous syntactic and semantic structures has been target for researchers that with computing systems in distributed environment of geoprocessing over the last years. This fact happens owing to an increasing need for information exchange processed by those generators of geographic data.

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Azevedo, V.H.M., Meirelles, M.S.P., Ferraz, R.P.D., Ramalho-Filho, A. (2007). Interoperability among Heterogeneous Geographic Objects. In: Davis, C.A., Monteiro, A.M.V. (eds) Advances in Geoinformatics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73414-7_12

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