Definition: Heads-up digitizing

Category: UN - Geographic Information Systems

A digitizing technique that does not employ a digitizing table. Instead, features are traced with a mouse on-screen either from a scanned image displayed in the background or following features drawn on a clear medium (e.g., mylar) that is attached to the computer screen. http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/ramon/statmanuals/files/Handbook_Geo_Infrastr_Supp_Census_Activ.pdf
Source:
United Nations, "Handbook on Geospatial Infrastructure in Support of Census Activities", Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics Division, Studies in Methods, Series F No. 103, New York, 2009
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