National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

This report was prepared for the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis in con-junction with Research Initiative No. I on the accuracy of spatial data bases. It is being distributed as an aid to research.

The report consists of an annotated bibliography of articles related to the issue of spatial data base accuracy. Approximately one-half of these articles have been published in the professional literature. Conference papers account for the largest share of the remainder, which also includes technical reports, chapters of books and unpublished manuscripts.

Keywords are used to identify the primary topical focus of each article. Topics were selected to reflect a set of broad issues of interest to those involved in both pure and applied research. The latter pages of the report contain a keyword index, an author index and a brief description of each keyword.

Due to the usual constraints, it has been impossible to compile a thoroughly exhaustive listing of relevant articles. Readers will no doubt find that certain topics have not received the attention they deserve. Moreover, topics such as accuracy in surveying, for which a fairly mature and well-known professional literature exists, have not been dealt with in a comprehensive fashion. These shortcomings notwithstanding, the bibliography succeeds in bringing together a range of literature from a diversity of sources and should therefore prove to be a useful starting point for future research on the issue of spatial data base accuracy.