dasymetric

Coined by its inventor, Benjamin (Veniamin) Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky in 1911, from Ancient Greek δασύς (dasús, “thick with leaves, dense”) and μέτρον (métron, “measure”).

dasymetric (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to a method of thematic mapping that uses areal symbols to classify volumetric data in a spatial manner.
   • 2003, Victor Mesev, Remotely-Sensed Cities, page 151:

     A final issue that must be considered in the dasymetric approach is error in the classification of the satellite image.

   • 2011, Xiaojun Yang, Urban Remote Sensing: Monitoring, Synthesis and Modeling in the Urban Environment:

     Therefore, the spatial redistribution of population and other sociodemographic data, as we will focus our discussion in this chapter, involves two transformation processes: dasymetric mapping, which involves data disaggregation, to in turn enable areal interpolation, which involves data reaggregation to a set of desired areal units.

• dasymeter
• dasypygal