A comparison of two approaches to ranking algorithms used to compute hill slopes

GeoInformatica

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 235-256

  Jones, Kevin H ^a,b,c,d,e,f  

^a SCOTTISH CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c MINISTRY OF DEFENCE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e Land Use Sciences Group   (United Kingdom)

^f Veritas DGS Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cell size; Digital elevation model; Grid size; Mean smooth elevation difference; Root mean square residual error; Slope calculation; Standard deviation of Gaussian noise

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HILLSLOPE;

EID: 0032467821     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1026472421094     Document Type: Article

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