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spatial reasoning  

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  • The field of spatial reasoning investigates representations and inference mechanisms that enable one to draw conclusions from spatial information. It is also concerned with computational implementation of spatial reasoning algorithms and their exploitation in applications such as robot control, image processing, and manipulation of geographic information. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Spatial Reasoning]

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