Effects of LiDAR data reduction and breaklines on the accuracy of digital elevation model

Survey Review

Volumn 43, Issue 323, 2011, Pages 614-628

  Liu, Xiaoye ^a,b   Zhang, Zhenyu ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Breaklines; Data reduction; DEM; Digital elevation model; LiDAR

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; TERRAIN;

EID: 80053373325     PISSN: 00396265     EISSN: 17522706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/003962611X13117748892317     Document Type: Article

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