Accuracy of Digital Elevation Models Derived from Terrestrial Laser Scanning Data

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1923-1927

  Fan, Lei ^a,b   Atkinson, P M ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b XI AN JIAOTONG LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Digital elevation model (DEM); Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS); Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; ERRORS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; INTERPOLATION; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SCANNING; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURVEYING;

ACCURACY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; INTERPOLATION ERROR; INTERPOLATION METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; UNCERTAINTY;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

EID: 85027936079     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2015.2438394     Document Type: Article

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