A geometric representation for images is studied in this work. This is based on two complementary geometric structures for the topographic representation of an image. The first one computes a description of the Morse structure, while the second one computes a simplified version of drainage structures. The topographic significance of the Morse and drainage structures of Digital Elevation Maps (D...

To solve the problem of three-dimensional terrain simplification in large-scale which was based on digital elevation model (DEM) data, a terrain simplified method based on the theory of spatial autocorrelation was proposed. The slope, a key factor for expressing the terrain features, has been taken into account in this method. According to principle of regional similarities in geomorphology is ...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry uses the phase difference between two SAR antennas to obtain an elevation estimate of the imaged terrain. Using an initial digital elevation model (DEM), the time-domain backprojection algorithm implicitly removes the terrain height phase from images during image formation. The use of a DEM during image formation adds additional information to the p...

Using aerial photography, satellite imagery, scanned maps and Digital Elevation Models implies to make storage and visualization strategy choices. To obtain a three dimensional visualization, we have to link these images called texture with the terrain geometry named Digital Elevation Model. These information are usually stored in three different files (One for the DEM, one for the texture and ...

Terrain analysis is a very important part of the study of surface processes. Although several techniques have been used historically to study terrain, the use of satellite imageries has become one of the optimum methods now. Presently there are lots of satellite imageries available for extraction of elevation features microwave optical etc. The stereo pair images have a great potentiality in th...

The generation of Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) is one photogrammetric process that has been successfully automated. However, a common criticism surrounding DEM generation software currently available commercially, is the lack of quality assessment procedures. This paper describes a new system called the Failure Warning Model (FWM), which automatically detects low accuracy areas and presents ...

We present a practical method for producing a high-resolution digital elevation map (DEM) from a set of spatially overlapping images. We start with the principle that multiple low-resolution DEMs can be combined to form a high-resolution DEM provided that (i) the sample DEMs are registered to the same coordinate system; (ii) the elevation estimates at each posting are partially independent; and...

Thin plate smoothing splines incorporating varying degrees of topographic dependence were used to interpolate 100 daily rainfall values, with the degree of data smoothing determined by minimizing the generalised cross validation. Analyses were performed on the square roots of the rainfall values. Model calibration was made difficult by short range correlation and the small size of the data set....

The contribution of automatically processed Système Pour l’Observation de la Terre (SPOT) high resolution visible (HRV) Pan data as an ancillary source of information to a digital elevation model (DEM)-based method for channel network extraction is introduced. The image processing stage included an application of a Laplacian filter for edge detection. Edge pixels that were not contiguous with t...

17 Abstract—This study outlines a method for generating an 18 automated micro-landform map of an alluvial plain for 19 further flood hazard assessment by combining Shuttle Radar 20 Topographic Mission Digital Elevation Model (SRTM DEM) 21 and satellite images. Average elevation and channel features 22 extracted from DEM are associated with soil moist condition 23 (thresholds of Modified Normali...