A Similarity Measurement Model for Multi-resolution Transmission of Curve Datasets over the Internet.

Concerning the dissimilarity between original spatial data and progressively transmitted spatial data, this paper proposes a model for measuring the similarity of curve datasets. After curve similarity is measured based on differences of the topological and geometric characteristics, the weighted similarity and the similarity precision for curve datasets are computed. The model uses weighted similarity to assess the overall degree of similarity for curve datasets and uses similarity precision to assess the similarity differences between curves. Finally, the model was used in an experiment and verified for effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]