DIGITAL TERRAIN MODELING - ACQUISITION, MANIPULATION AND APPLICATIONS

This is the first truly comprehensive guide to digital terrain modeling that provides a thorough, mathematically rigorous treatment of DTM generation, manipulation, and analysis techniques and applications. Supported with over 100 illustrations, this single, practical volume: describes photogrammetric data capture, direct georeferencing systems, LIDAR, IFSAR, and other data acquisition techniques; explains how to determine the most appropriate DTM generation technique for any given project; offers a detailed treatment of DTM data structures, including storage and compression techniques for grid data, as well as data filtering and smoothing procedures; covers various data interpolation methods, including KRIGING analysis techniques; develops the mathematical theory behind DTM construction to the extent that is has general applications to all surfaces; places emphasis on quality control to help professionals gain essential insight into the kind of problems and errors to expect in elevation; and features a full range of highly illustrative examples and covers real-world applications.