High-accuracy surface modelling and its application to DEM generation

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2205-2226

  Yue, Tian Xiang ^a   Song, Dun Jiang ^b   Du, Zheng Ping ^a   Wang, Wei ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^c National Disaster Reduction Center of China   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NUMERICAL METHODS; SOILS; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MAP; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL STATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL THEOREMS; INVERSE DISTANCE WEIGHT; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SYNTHETIC SURFACES; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORKS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GAUSSIAN METHOD; KRIGING; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 77951786844     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003668982     Document Type: Article

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