Lidar DEM error analyses and topographic depression identification in a hummocky landscape in the prairie region of Canada

Geomorphology

Volumn 129, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 263-275

  Li, Sheng ^a   MacMillan, R A ^b   Lobb, David A ^a   McConkey, Brian G ^c   Moulin, Alan ^d   Fraser, Walter R ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

^c SWIFT CURRENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

^d BRANDON RESEARCH CENTRE   (Canada)

^e AGRICULTURE AND AGRI FOOD CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canadian Prairies; Depression connection; Fine resolution DEM; Lidar data error; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; LIDAR; LOAM; PRAIRIE; SMOOTHING; TERRAIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

CANADA;

EID: 79955070832     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2011.02.020     Document Type: Article

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