# Efficient regionalization techniques for socio‐economic geographical units using minimum spanning trees

@article{Assuno2006EfficientRT,
title={Efficient regionalization techniques for socio‐economic geographical units using minimum spanning trees},
author={Renato Martins Assunç{\~a}o and Marcos Corr{\^e}a Neves and Gilberto C{\^a}mara and Corina da Costa Freitas},
journal={International Journal of Geographical Information Science},
year={2006},
volume={20},
pages={797 - 811}
}
• R. Assunção, +1 author C. Freitas
• Published 2006
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• International Journal of Geographical Information Science
Regionalization is a classification procedure applied to spatial objects with an areal representation, which groups them into homogeneous contiguous regions. This paper presents an efficient method for regionalization. The first step creates a connectivity graph that captures the neighbourhood relationship between the spatial objects. The cost of each edge in the graph is inversely proportional to the similarity between the regions it joins. We summarize the neighbourhood structure by a minimum… Expand
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