The effect of error in gridded digital elevation models on the estimation of topographic parameters

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 710-732

  Raaflaub, Lynn D ^a   Collins, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; Error analysis; Topography

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); ERROR SENSITIVITY; STEEPEST NEIGHBOR FLOW ROUTING ALGORITHMS; TOPOGRAPHY;

SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33645881700     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2005.02.003     Document Type: Article

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