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Feature Representation

Feature representation is the way features or phenomenon on the earth’s surface are captured and stored in a database.

Features, such as roads, streams, or soil types can be stored in raster or vector data formats.

Raster data are stored like images that have rows, columns, and pixel values. Vector data are stored through point, line, and polygon representations.

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