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geomasking: a standalone construct

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Geographic information science

altering the locations of sensitive point data, for example by random displacement, to protect confidentiality while keeping spatial patterns usable.

In geographic information science, geomasking refers to altering the locations of sensitive point data, for example by random displacement, to protect confidentiality while keeping spatial patterns usable. This meaning comes from Armstrong (1999) in Statistics in Medicine.[1]

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confidentiality6 fields · 17 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs displacement5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs donut geomasking1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Armstrong, M. P., Rushton, G., & Zimmerman, D. L. (1999). Geographically masking health data to preserve confidentiality. Statistics in Medicine, 18(5), 497-525. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990315)18:5<497::aid-sim45>3.0.co;2-#

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