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error propagation - [uncertainty] In GIS data processing, the persistence of an error into new datasets calculated or created using datasets that originally contained errors. The study of error propagation is concerned with the effects of combined and accumulated errors throughout a series of data processing operations.
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Source: esri, 14 April 2012 09:58:04, http://support.esri.com/en/knowledgebase/GISDictionary/term/abbreviation
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