Digital elevation model （DEM） is the most popular product for three-dimensional （3D） digital representation of bare Earth surface and can be produced by many techniques with different characteristics and ground sa...Digital elevation model （DEM） is the most popular product for three-dimensional （3D） digital representation of bare Earth surface and can be produced by many techniques with different characteristics and ground sampling distances （GSD）. Space-borne opti- cal and synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging are two of the most preferred and modern techniques for DEM generation. Using them, global DEMs that cover almost entire Earth are produced with low cost and time saving processing. In this study, we aimed to assess the Satellite pour robservation de la Terre-5 （SPOT-5）, High Resolution Stereoscopic （HRS）, the Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer （ASTER）, and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission （SRTM） C-band global DEMs, produced with space-borne optical and SAR imaging. For the assessment, a reference DEM derived from 1 ： 1000 scaled digital photogrammetric maps was used. The study is performed in 100 km2 study area in Istanbul including various land classes such as open land, forest, built-up land, scrub and rough terrain obtained from Landsat data. The analyses were realized considering three vertical accuracy types as fundamental, supplemental, and consolidated, defined by national digital elevation program （NDEP） of USA. The results showed that, vertical accuracy of SRTM C-band DEM is better than optical models in all three accuracy types despite having the largest grid spacing. The result of SPOT-5 HRS DEM is very close by SRTM and superior in comparison with ASTER models.展开更多
A space-filling curve in 2,3,or higher dimensions can be thought as a path of a continuously moving point.As its main goal is to preserve spatial proximity,this type of curves has been widely used in the design and im...A space-filling curve in 2,3,or higher dimensions can be thought as a path of a continuously moving point.As its main goal is to preserve spatial proximity,this type of curves has been widely used in the design and implementation of spatial data structures and nearest neighbor-finding techniques.This paper is essentially focused on the efficient representation of Digital Ele-vation Models(DEM) that entirely fit into the main memory.We propose a new hierarchical quadtree-like data structure to be built over domains of unrestricted size,and a representation of a quadtree and a binary triangles tree by means of the Hilbert and the Sierpinski space-filling curves,respectively,taking into account the hierarchical nature and the clustering properties of this kind of curves.Some triangulation schemes are described for the space-filling-curves-based approaches to efficiently visualize multiresolu-tion surfaces.展开更多
基金Under the auspices of Scientific Research Project Coordinatorship of Yildiz Technical University,Turkey(No.20100503KAP01)
文摘Digital elevation model （DEM） is the most popular product for three-dimensional （3D） digital representation of bare Earth surface and can be produced by many techniques with different characteristics and ground sampling distances （GSD）. Space-borne opti- cal and synthetic aperture radar （SAR） imaging are two of the most preferred and modern techniques for DEM generation. Using them, global DEMs that cover almost entire Earth are produced with low cost and time saving processing. In this study, we aimed to assess the Satellite pour robservation de la Terre-5 （SPOT-5）, High Resolution Stereoscopic （HRS）, the Advanced Space-borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer （ASTER）, and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission （SRTM） C-band global DEMs, produced with space-borne optical and SAR imaging. For the assessment, a reference DEM derived from 1 ： 1000 scaled digital photogrammetric maps was used. The study is performed in 100 km2 study area in Istanbul including various land classes such as open land, forest, built-up land, scrub and rough terrain obtained from Landsat data. The analyses were realized considering three vertical accuracy types as fundamental, supplemental, and consolidated, defined by national digital elevation program （NDEP） of USA. The results showed that, vertical accuracy of SRTM C-band DEM is better than optical models in all three accuracy types despite having the largest grid spacing. The result of SPOT-5 HRS DEM is very close by SRTM and superior in comparison with ASTER models.
基金Supported by the GeneSIG Project, University of Informatics Sciences (UCI), Havana, Cuba
文摘A space-filling curve in 2,3,or higher dimensions can be thought as a path of a continuously moving point.As its main goal is to preserve spatial proximity,this type of curves has been widely used in the design and implementation of spatial data structures and nearest neighbor-finding techniques.This paper is essentially focused on the efficient representation of Digital Ele-vation Models(DEM) that entirely fit into the main memory.We propose a new hierarchical quadtree-like data structure to be built over domains of unrestricted size,and a representation of a quadtree and a binary triangles tree by means of the Hilbert and the Sierpinski space-filling curves,respectively,taking into account the hierarchical nature and the clustering properties of this kind of curves.Some triangulation schemes are described for the space-filling-curves-based approaches to efficiently visualize multiresolu-tion surfaces.
