Meaning of pycnophylactic | Babel Free

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Relating to a kind of areal interpolation that preserves density within defined regions.

not-comparable

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“If intrazonal homogeneity cannot be maintained in cases where similar land uses lie in adjacent zones and dissimilar land uses lie within the same zone, then the pycnophylactic method may be favored.”

“Although the pycnophylactic method is arguably more appropriate for isopleth mapping than point-based interpolation methods, it must be emphasized that the method should only be used with continuous phenomenon.”

“We iterated the algorithm with 20 census variables (see Section 1.3.3) to obtain population density surfaces. In all cases, the pycnophylactic property [85] was verified by adding population density surface pixels and comparing them with their original values.”

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