Digital terrain analysis: Theory, method and application

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 64, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1058-1070

  Yang, Xin ^a   Tang, Guoan ^a   Liu, Xuejun ^a   Li, Fayuan ^a   Zhu, Shijie ^a  

^a NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Digital terrain analysis; Digtial elevation model; Geo information science; Geomorphology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOSTATISTICS; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL STUDY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 76749165307     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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