The influence of digital surface model choice on visibility-based mobile geospatial applications

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 526-543

  Meek, Sam ^a   Goulding, James ^a   Priestnall, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOCATION BASED SERVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

DIGITAL SURFACE MODELS; DIGITAL SURFACES; GEOSPATIAL APPLICATIONS; LINE OF SIGHT; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MEDIA CONSUMPTION; MOBILE MEDIA; MODEL CHOICE; SURFACE MODELING; SURFACE REPRESENTATION;

VISIBILITY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ALGORITHM; GEOSTATISTICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; LIDAR; NUMERICAL MODEL; TESTING METHOD; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84881315793     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12021     Document Type: Article

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