The impact of misregistration on SRTM and DEM image differences

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2430-2442

  Van Niel, Thomas G ^a,c   McVicar, Tim R ^a,c   Li, LingTao ^a,c   Gallant, John C ^a   Yang, QinKe ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Change detection; China; Digital surface models; Error; Image difference; Loess Plateau; Murray Darling; Murrumbidgee; Spatial structure; Vegetation height; YanHe; Yellow River

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE REGISTRATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXELS; SPACE SHUTTLES;

CHANGE DETECTION; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; IMAGE DIFFERENCE; MURRUMBIDGEE; SPATIAL STRUCTURE; VEGETATION HEIGHT;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEIGHT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PIXEL; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

ASIA; AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; MURRAY-DARLING BASIN; MURRUMBIDGEE RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES; YELLOW RIVER;

EID: 41249083160     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.11.003     Document Type: Article

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