Topographic accuracy assessment of bare earth lidar-derived unstructured meshes

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 52, Issue , 2013, Pages 165-177

  Bilskie, Matthew V ^a   Hagen, Scott C ^a  

^a University of Central Florida   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; DEM; Lidar; Shallow water equations; Storm surge; Unstructured mesh

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; DEM; SHALLOW WATER EQUATIONS; STORM SURGES; UNSTRUCTURED MESHES;

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOODS; INTERPOLATION; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MESH GENERATION; STORMS; SURVEYING; WATER LEVELS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHALLOW-WATER EQUATION; STORM SURGE; TOPOGRAPHY;

MISSISSIPPI; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870198145     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2012.09.003     Document Type: Article

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