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field-object dichotomy: a standalone construct

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Geographic information science

the contrast between seeing geographic reality as discrete bounded objects or as continuous fields of values, which shapes how phenomena are represented.

In geographic information science, field-object dichotomy refers to the contrast between seeing geographic reality as discrete bounded objects or as continuous fields of values, which shapes how phenomena are represented. This meaning comes from Couclelis (1992) in Lecture Notes in Computer Science.[1]

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References

Couclelis, H. (1992). People manipulate objects (but cultivate fields): Beyond the raster-vector debate in GIS. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 65-77). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55966-3_3

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