The discontinuous nature of kriging interpolation for digital terrain modeling

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 209-216

  Meyer, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model; Discontinuity; Kriging

Indexed keywords

DATA HANDLING; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELING; WEIGHTED INVERSE DISTANCE METHOD;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; DISCONTINUITY; GIS; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING;

EID: 18744378569     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/1523040042742385     Document Type: Article

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