Vertical accuracy of digital elevation model from Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission - a case study

Geocarto International

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 257-267

  Sharma, Arabinda ^a   Tiwari, K N ^a   Bhadoria, P B S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Error surface; RMSE; SRTM DEM; Terrain attributes; Vertical accuracy

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ELEVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE MISSION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 77953920541     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106040903302931     Document Type: Article

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