Robust best-fit planes from geospatial data

Geosphere

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 196-202

  Jones, Richard R ^a   Pearce, Mark A ^b   Jacquemyn, Carl ^c,d   Watson, Francesca E ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEST FIT; DATA POINTS; EIGENVALUES; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; GOODNESS OF FIT; INPUT DATAS; TOTAL LEAST SQUARES; TWO PARAMETER;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

EIGENVALUE; GEOMETRY; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PARAMETERIZATION; PRECISION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84958254791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553040X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/GES01247.1     Document Type: Article

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