Limitations in the hydrologie applications of C-B and SRTM DEMs in low-relief settings

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 497-501

  Bhang, Kon Joon ^a   Schwartz, Frank ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided analysis; Hydrology; Modeling; Synthetic aperture radar (SAR)

Indexed keywords

EARTH SCIENCES; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL; SURVEYS; WATER;

ELEVATION DATA; INHERENT NOISE; MINNESOTA (CO); SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM); STREAM NETWORKS; U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS);

TRACKING RADAR;

EID: 47849102906     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.920712     Document Type: Article

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