A robust estimator for the accuracy assessment of remote-sensing-derived DEMs

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2482-2497

  Chen, Chuan Fa ^a   Fan, Ze Meng ^b   Yue, Tian Xiang ^b   Dai, Hong Lei ^a  

^a SHANDONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ITERATIVE METHODS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OPTICAL RADAR; RANDOM ERRORS; REMOTE SENSING; STATISTICS;

DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY; HIGH BREAKDOWN POINT; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MEDIAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATION; NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; STRATIFIED RANDOM SAMPLING;

SURVEYING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; IMAGE RESOLUTION; KINEMATICS; LIDAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84863268697     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2011.615766     Document Type: Article

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