A methodology for balancing the preservation of area, shape, and topological properties in polygon-to-raster conversion

We proposed a new methodology for reducing multiple types of rasterization errors to simultaneously preserve the spatial properties of area, shape, and topology in polygon-to-raster conversion. By reassigning cells of the rasterized outcome, the method first compensates for the loss in shape properties. Topological changes are then corrected by comparing the topological relations of raster regions and their corresponding polygons. Finally, the areas between pairs of neighboring regions are coordinated to maintain area properties.