Assessing global digital elevation models using the runway method: The advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer versus the shuttle radar topography mission case

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 52, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 4823-4831

  Becek, Kazimierz ^a  

^a WROC AW UNIVERSITY OF ENVIRONMENTAL AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER); airports; digital elevation models (DEM); Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

Indexed keywords

AIRPORTS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FORESTRY; INSTRUMENT ERRORS; RADIOMETERS; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR;

ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLAT TERRAINS; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; REFERENCE DATA; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VERTICAL PROFILE;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRPORT; ASTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ERROR ANALYSIS; RADIOMETER; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TERRAIN; VERTICAL PROFILE;

EID: 84896401253     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2013.2285187     Document Type: Article

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