Accuracy assessment of lidar-derived digital elevation models

Photogrammetric Record

Volumn 23, Issue 122, 2008, Pages 148-169

  Aguilar, Fernando J ^a   Mills, Jon P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Confidence intervals; DEM; Lidar

Indexed keywords

CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DETECTORS; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERRORS; ESTIMATION; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTICAL RADAR; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SECURITY OF DATA; SPACE OPTICS; SURVEYING; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE LIDARS; CHECK POINT (CO); CONFIDENCE INTERVAL (CI); DATA-SETS; DEM ACCURACY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL (DEM); DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEMS); ERROR DATA; ERROR DISTRIBUTIONS; FILTERED REFERENCE; GROUND TRUTH; HIGH PRECISION; INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY; KINEMATIC GPS; LID AR SYSTEMS; LIDAR DATA; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION (MCS); NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL (NERC); NONPARAMETRIC APPROACHES; VERTICAL ERRORS; WORKING GROUP (WG);

NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 47949095560     PISSN: 0031868X     EISSN: 14779730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9730.2008.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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