David H. Douglas

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

David H. Douglas is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Geochemistry and Petrology and Building and Construction. According to data from OpenAlex, David H. Douglas has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 2 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2 papers in Geochemistry and Petrology and 2 papers in Building and Construction. Recurrent topics in David H. Douglas's work include Historical Geography and Cartography (2 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (2 papers) and 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications (2 papers). David H. Douglas is often cited by papers focused on Historical Geography and Cartography (2 papers), Geographic Information Systems Studies (2 papers) and 3D Modeling in Geospatial Applications (2 papers). David H. Douglas collaborates with scholars based in Canada and United States. David H. Douglas's co-authors include Thomas K. Peucker and has published in prestigious journals such as Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, Computer Graphics and Image Processing and The Canadian Surveyor.

In The Last Decade

David H. Douglas

5 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

ALGORITHMS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF POINTS REQUIRED TO REPRESENT A DIGITIZED LINE OR ITS CARICATURE

1973 2.8k citations David H. Douglas, Thomas K. Peucker Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David H. Douglas Canada	4	1.1k	834	606	587	530	6	3.4k
Thomas K. Peucker Canada	9	1.1k 1.0×	872 1.0×	576 1.0×	644 1.1×	516 1.0×	14	3.3k
Monika Sester Germany	31	528 0.5×	711 0.9×	631 1.0×	906 1.5×	567 1.1×	201	3.0k
Jianya Gong China	41	895 0.8×	472 0.6×	1.5k 2.5×	533 0.9×	621 1.2×	334	6.2k
Tinghua Ai China	29	521 0.5×	571 0.7×	475 0.8×	951 1.6×	799 1.5×	176	2.8k
Qing Zhu China	31	1.0k 1.0×	162 0.2×	1.1k 1.8×	294 0.5×	651 1.2×	208	3.7k
Liqiu Meng Germany	24	1.3k 1.2×	292 0.4×	272 0.4×	570 1.0×	303 0.6×	154	3.0k
Christian Heipke Germany	32	1.2k 1.1×	222 0.3×	2.0k 3.3×	290 0.5×	956 1.8×	256	4.5k
Dieter Fritsch Germany	21	518 0.5×	213 0.3×	641 1.1×	233 0.4×	354 0.7×	141	1.7k
Leila De Floriani Italy	26	1.1k 1.1×	429 0.5×	273 0.5×	158 0.3×	56 0.1×	176	2.6k
Zhong Xie China	28	568 0.5×	369 0.4×	609 1.0×	259 0.4×	562 1.1×	116	2.7k

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6 of 6 papers shown

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Douglas, David H.. (1994). Least-cost Path in GIS Using an Accumulated Cost Surface and Slopelines. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 31(3). 37–51. 188 indexed citations

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Douglas, David H.. (1987). EXPERIMENTS TO LOCATE RIDGES AND CHANNELS TO CREATE A NEW TYPE OF DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL. The Canadian Surveyor. 41(3). 373–406. 1 indexed citations

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Douglas, David H.. (1986). EXPERIMENTS TO LOCATE RIDGES AND CHANNELS TO CREATE A NEW TYPE OF DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 23(4). 29–61. 83 indexed citations

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Douglas, David H., et al.. (1984). Part 2: Issues and Problems Relating to Cartographic Data Use, Exchange and Transfer: Cartographic Feature Coding. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 21(2-3). 62–72. 1 indexed citations

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Peucker, Thomas K. & David H. Douglas. (1975). Detection of Surface-Specific Points by Local Parallel Processing of Discrete Terrain Elevation Data. Computer Graphics and Image Processing. 4(4). 375–387. 296 indexed citations

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Douglas, David H. & Thomas K. Peucker. (1973). ALGORITHMS FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF POINTS REQUIRED TO REPRESENT A DIGITIZED LINE OR ITS CARICATURE. Cartographica The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization. 10(2). 112–122. 2781 indexed citations breakdown →

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