Involves a reduction of detail, either by resampling to a larger cell size (as a Raster operation) or reducing the number of points (as a Vector operation).
A reduction of detail through resampling to larger spacing or a reduction in the number of points or vertices in a line.
1. Reduce the number of points, or vertices, used to represent a line. 2. Increase the cell size and resample data in a raster format GIS.