A scale-adaptive DEM for multi-scale terrain analysis

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1329-1348

  Chen, Yumin ^a,c   Zhou, Qiming ^a,b  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c Ministry of Natural Resources   (China)

Author keywords

DEM DTM; generalization; multi resolution; scale; triangulation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; TERRAIN; TRIANGULATED IRREGULAR NETWORK; TRIANGULATION;

EID: 84880934185     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2012.739690     Document Type: Article

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