Evaluation of remotely-sensed DEMs and modification based on plausibility rules and initial sediment budgets of an artificially-created catchment

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 708-725

  Schneider, Anna ^a   Gerke, Horst H ^b   Maurer, Thomas ^a   Seifert, Stefan ^c   Nenov, Rossen ^a   Hüttl, Reinhard F ^d  

^a BRANDENBURG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models (DEMs); Digital photogrammetry; Error assessment; LIDAR; Morphological sediment budgeting

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATIONS; COMPREHENSIVE EVALUATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; ELEVATION DATA; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; ERROR ASSESSMENT; GROUND-BASED LASERS; INTERRILL; LANDSCAPE CHANGES; LOWER RESOLUTION; MASS CHANGE; MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTIC; MULTISOURCES; REFERENCE DATA; RESOLUTION EFFECTS; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; STRUCTURAL UNIT; SURFACE LOWERING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) MODEL; VEGETATION COVER; VOLUME CHANGE;

BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; EROSION; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; RATING; RUNOFF; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SEEBECK EFFECT; SURVEYING; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VEGETATION;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

CATCHMENT; DEPOSITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; GPS; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE STRUCTURE; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 84861939741     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2274     Document Type: Article

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