The ground beneath your feet: Digital elevation data for today and tomorrow

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 70-76

  Gallant, J C ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Radar; Soil properties; Terrain attributers

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SMOOTHING; AIRBORNE LIDAR; AUSTRALIA; COASTAL LOWLAND; CONTINENTAL SCALE; CONTRIBUTING AREAS; DATA INFRASTRUCTURE; DATA SETS; DATA VOLUME; DERIVED PRODUCTS; DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; ELEVATION DATA; ELEVATION MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING; FLOOD-PLAINS; GEO-SPATIAL; GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA; HIGH COSTS; HIGH PRECISION; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; HIGHER RESOLUTION; HORIZONTAL RESOLUTION; HYDROLOGICAL CONNECTIVITY; KEY INPUT; LOWER RESOLUTION; MEASUREMENT TECHNOLOGIES; NEW APPLICATIONS; SATELLITE RADAR; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOIL PROPERTY; STREAM LINES; TANDEM-X; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; TERRAIN ATTRIBUTERS; TERRAIN DATA; TOPOGRAPHIC POSITIONS; URBAN AREAS; VERTICAL ACCURACY; WATER MOVEMENTS;

ANIMALS; CATCHMENTS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; NASA; OPTICAL RADAR; RADAR; RADAR SYSTEMS; RUNOFF; SUN; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

ANIMALS; COMPUTER PROGRAMING; DATA PROCESSING; OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RADAR; SURVEYING;

EID: 84858846039     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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