Dem Local Accuracy Patterns in Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification

Abstract: Global and nation-wide DEM do not preserve the same height accuracy throughout the area of study. Instead of assuming a single RMSE value for the whole area, this study proposes a vario-model that divides the area into sub-regions depending on the land-use/landcover (LULC) classification, and assigns a local accuracy per each zone, as these areas share similar terrain formation and roughness, and tend to have similar DEM accuracies. A pilot study over Lebanon using the SRTM and ASTER DEMs, combined with a set of 1,105 randomly distributed ground control points (GCPs) showed that even though the inputDEMs have different spatial and temporal resolution, and were collected using difierent techniques, their accuracy varied similarly when changing over difierent LULC classes. Furthermore, validating the generated vario-models proved that they provide a closer representation of the accuracy to the validating GCPs than the conventional RMSE, by 94% and 86% for the SRTMand ASTER respectively. Geostatistical analysis of the input and output datasets showed that the results have a normal distribution, which support the generalization of the proven hypothesis, making this finding applicable to other input datasets anywhere around the world.

Location
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Extent
Online-Ressource
Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Dem Local Accuracy Patterns in Land-Use/Land-Cover Classification ; volume:8 ; number:1 ; year:2016 ; pages:760-770 ; extent:11
Open Geosciences ; 8, Heft 1 (2016), 760-770 (gesamt 11)

Creator
Katerji, Wassim
Farjas Abadia, Mercedes
Morillo Balsera, Maria del Carmen

DOI
10.1515/geo-2016-0052
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2501051445040.200180422630
Rights
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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  • Farjas Abadia, Mercedes
  • Morillo Balsera, Maria del Carmen

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