Assessing the quality of digital elevation models obtained from mini unmanned aerial vehicles for overland flow modelling in urban areas

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 1637-1653

  Leitão, Joo P ^a   Moy De Vitry, Matthew ^a   Scheidegger, Andreas ^a   Rieckermann, Jrg ^a  

^a SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; METEOROLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRACKING (POSITION); TREES (MATHEMATICS); UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV);

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EXPLANATORY VARIABLES; IMAGE OVERLAPPING; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MINI UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES; OBJECT REPRESENTATIONS; QUANTITATIVE METRICS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

SURVEYING;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CONTOUR MAP; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; OVERLAND FLOW; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; UNMANNED VEHICLE; URBAN AREA; URBAN DRAINAGE;

EID: 84966270904     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-20-1637-2016     Document Type: Article

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