An Adaptive Method of High Accuracy Surface Modeling and Its Application to Simulating Elevation Surfaces

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 615-630

  Yue, Tian Xiang ^a,c   Chen, Chuan Fa ^b   Li, Bai Lian ^c  

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

^b SHANDONG JIANZHU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEAN SQUARE ERROR;

ADAPTIVE METHODS; ERROR ESTIMATORS; ERROR INDICATORS; ERROR SURFACE; HIGH-ACCURACY; ITS APPLICATIONS; MODEL APPLICATION; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPEED UP; SURFACE MODELING;

ERRORS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELEVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PIXEL; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78649524024     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01213.x     Document Type: Article

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