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## Aim In many fields of research, valuable information is stored in atlases and maps which are only available as printed media. Scientists who are interested in computational analysis often seek to digitize the data to make it accessible for numerical calculations. In this paper, an approach using the example of digitizing distribution maps taken from plant‐taxonomic atlases is described. For this purpose, a software tool has been built for application in the __Sonderforschungsbereich 350__ `Interactions between and Modelling of Continental Geosystems' at the University of Bonn. Its functionality has to be simple in use and capable of transforming fields drawn on geographical maps into grid data even where the type of map projection is unknown. ## Location As an example, plant distributions over Europe and Asia have been digitized. ## Methods To achieve this aim through an objective statistical analysis, the local deterministic approximation has been used for geo‐referencing. ## Results For this reason the development of a new software tool was required. Although there is a large market for related software from __Geographical Information Systems__ (__GIS__), none of the available

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Author

Christian A. Schölzel; Andreas Hense; Peter Hübl; Norbert Kühl; Thomas Litt

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley; JSTOR (ISSN 0305-0270)

Published

2002

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)