Verification of the vertical error in C-band SRTM DEM using ICESat and Landsat-7, Otter Tail County, MN

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-44

  Bhang, Kon Joon ^a   Schwartz, Frank W ^a   Braun, Alexander ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cloud; Ice; Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat); Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) digital elevation model (DEM); Vertical bias; Vertical error

Indexed keywords

HYDROLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; RADAR; SPACE SHUTTLES;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); LAND-ELEVATION SATELLITE (ICESAT); VERTICAL BIAS; VERTICAL ERROR;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 33846225150     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2006.885401     Document Type: Article

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