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Special Section: Spatial computing and digital humanities

A quad-tree-based fast and adaptive Kernel Density Estimation algorithm for heat-map generation

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Pages 2455-2476 | Received 30 Apr 2018, Accepted 02 Dec 2018, Published online: 15 Jan 2019

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