Investigating the effects of DEM error in scaling analysis

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 67-78

  James, Timothy D ^a   Carbonneau, Patrice E ^b   Lane, Stuart N ^b  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; QUALITY CONTROL;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM); ROBUST QUALITY ASSESSMENT; SCALING ANALYSIS;

MEASUREMENT ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 33845985303     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.73.1.67     Document Type: Review

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