Improving user assessment of error implications in digital elevation models

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 268-277

  Darnell, Amii R ^a   Tate, Nicholas J ^a   Brunsdon, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Error; Propagation; Stochastic simulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARSENIC; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DIGITAL ARITHMETIC; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; ERROR ANALYSIS; FORESTRY; GEODETIC SATELLITES; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDES; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR;

CASE STUDIES; CONDITIONAL SIMULATIONS; DATA SETS; DATA UNCERTAINTIES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; DIGITAL REPRESENTATIONS; ERROR; LANDSLIDE HAZARDS; LANDSLIDE SUSCEPTIBILITY; PROPAGATION; PROPAGATION OF ERROR; PROTOTYPE TOOLS; STOCHASTIC SIMULATION; TERRAIN SURFACES; UNCERTAINTY; USER REQUIREMENTS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; LANDSLIDE; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTICITY; TERRAIN; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ARSENIC; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CRACKS; EARTH MOVEMENT; ERRORS; FORESTRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RADAR; SATELLITES; SIMULATION;

EID: 49449118940     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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