Spatial structure and landscape associations of SRTM error

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1576-1587

  Shortridge, Ashton ^a   Messina, Joseph ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DEM error; MODIS; NED; Semivariogram; SRTM

Indexed keywords

DEM ERROR; MODIS; NED; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SRTM;

ERRORS; EXTRACTION; LANDFORMS; RADIOMETERS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE SHUTTLES; SURVEYING;

TRACKING RADAR;

DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOREGION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FOREST COVER; HABITAT TYPE; LAND COVER; MODIS; VARIOGRAM;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 79953172857     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.017     Document Type: Article

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