Determination of complexity factor and its relationship with accuracy of representation for DEM terrain |
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Authors: | Chun Liu Weiwei Sun Hangbin Wu |
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Institution: | LIU Chun 1,2,SUN Weiwei 1,WU Hangbin 1 1.Department of Surveying and Geo-informatics,Tongji University,1239 Siping Road,Shanghai 200092,China 2.Key Laboratory of Advanced Engineering Survey of SBSM,China |
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Abstract: | Based on the estimating rule of the normal vector angles between two adjacent terrain units, we use the concept of terrain
complexity factor to quantify the terrain complexity of DEM, and then the formula of terrain complexity factor in Raster DEM
and TIN DEM is deduced theoretically. In order to make clear how the terrain complexity factor E
CF
and the average elevation h affect the accuracy of DEM terrain representation RMSE
Et
, the formula of Gauss synthetical surface is applied to simulate several real terrain surfaces, each of which has different
terrain complexity. Through the statistical analysis of linear regression in simulation data, the linear equation between
accuracy of DEM terrain representation RMSE
Et
, terrain complexity factor E
CF
and the average elevation h is achieved. A new method is provided to estimate the accuracy of DEM terrain representation RMSE
Et
with a certain terrain complexity and it gives convincing theoretical evidence for DEM production and the corresponding error
research in the future. |
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Keywords: | terrain complexity factor Gauss synthetical surface accuracy DEM terrain representation |
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