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NALT Concept Space
U.S. Department of Agriculture

NALT Core

Concept information

  1. Fields of Study
  2. geospatial science and technology
  3. spatial data
  1. Research, Technology, Methods
  2. geospatial science and technology
  3. spatial data

Preferred term

spatial data

Type

  • Topic

Definition

  • Information Information pertaining to the location, spatial dimensions and relationships of objects in multidimensional space, and may be represented as points, lines, areas, surfaces, polygons or pixels with their associated coordinates or topology.

    Source: NAL Thesaurus Staff

    Type: Concept definition

Broader concept

Related concepts

Synonyms

  • geodata
  • geographical information
  • geographic information
  • geoinformation
  • geospatial data
  • geospatial datasets
  • spatial datasets

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URI

https://lod.nal.usda.gov/nalt/977

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