Evaluating error associated with lidar-derived DEM interpolation

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 289-300

  Bater, Christopher W ^a   Coops, Nicholas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

CART analysis; DEM validation; Prediction uncertainty; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; FORECASTING; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REACTOR CORES; REMOTE SENSING; SPLINES; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRITISH COLUMBIA , CANADA; CART ANALYSIS; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES; CRITICAL STEPS; DEM VALIDATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; ELEVATION MODELS; FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROACHES; GROUND COVERS; GROUND RETURNS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHTED INTERPOLATIONS; LIDAR DATUMS; LIDAR OBSERVATIONS; LIGHT DETECTIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE ERRORS; NATURAL NEIGHBOURS; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDICES; OUT-LIERS; PREDICTION UNCERTAINTY; RELATIVE HEIGHTS; ROOT MEAN SQUARES; SLOPING TERRAINS; SPATIAL RESOLUTIONS; STRUCTURAL CLASSES; STUDY AREAS; TERRAIN SURFACES; VANCOUVER; VEGETATION CLASSES;

VEGETATION;

ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROUND COVER; INTERPOLATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LIDAR; NDVI; QUICKBIRD; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VEGETATION TYPE;

ALGORITHMS; DETECTION; FORECASTS; FORESTRY; PLANTS; RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SURVEYING; TENSION;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; VANCOUVER ISLAND;

EID: 58349118739     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.09.001     Document Type: Article

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