Accuracy assessment of digital elevation models by means of robust statistical methods

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 398-406

  Höhle, Joachim ^a   Höhle, Michael ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accuracy; DEM DTM; Laser scanning; Photogrammetry; Specifications

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ACCURACY MEASURES; AUTOMATED PROCESSING; DATA SETS; DEM/DTM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LASER SCANNING; MEDIAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; OPEN TERRAIN; REFERENCE DATA; ROBUST STATISTICAL METHOD; SAMPLE SIZES;

AUTOMATION; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LASER APPLICATIONS; LASERS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SPECIFICATIONS; STATISTICS; SURVEYING; SYSTEMATIC ERRORS;

SCANNING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOMATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TERRAIN;

EID: 67649653810     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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