Analysis and characterization of the vertical accuracy of digital elevation models from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission

Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2005, Pages

  Falorni, Giacomo ^a,b   Teles, Vanessa ^a   Vivoni, Enrique R ^a,c   Bras, Rafael L ^a   Amaratunga, Kevin S ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c NEW MEXICO INSTITUTE OF MINING AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EARTH SCIENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FILTER; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33644698988     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003JF000113     Document Type: Article

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