Feature Representation
Feature Representation
Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS)
Feature representation is the way features or phenomenon on the earth’s surface are captured and stored in a database.
Features, such as roads, streams, or soil types can be stored in raster or vector data formats.
Raster data are stored like images that have rows, columns, and pixel values. Vector data are stored through point, line, and polygon representations.
Multiscale representation
Multiscale representation
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2025 CEGIS Annual Research Meeting
The Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS) is proud to host the 2025 U.S. Geological Survey’s Center of Excellence for Geospatial Information Science (CEGIS) Annual Research Meeting July 22-24, 2025. The virtual calendar event is being hosted by the USGS Community for Data Integration (CDI) in collaboration with CEGIS and is invitation only. The annual research meeting is...
Feature representation
Feature representation is the way features or phenomenon on the earth’s surface are captured and stored in a database. Features, such as roads, streams, or soil types can be stored in raster or vector data formats. Raster data are stored like images that have rows, columns, and pixel values. Vector data are stored through point, line, and polygon representations.