Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology (Hardcover)

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This book aims to fill a critical ground tin the methods of digital terrain modeling. …this book is suitable as an MSc-level GIS textbook, or for researchers and practitioners in geosciences. … this book is also suitable as a textbook for senior undergraduate students in photogrammmetry or geomatics in general, civil engineering, and even computer science students who are majoring in computer graphics, computer vision, and/or 3-D game development. … this book will be welcomed by its target audience with pleasure and great appreciation. Its content is well-explained, very readable, and there are reasonable details to implement its algorithms. It summarizes the important development in digital terrain modeling and it sets the stage to move on to address new challenges ahead.
— Dr. Gamal H. Seedahmed, Sr. Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL), in http://www.isprs.org, July 2006

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Digital terrain modeling has been a research area for more than 40 years in geo-sciences and has become a rather self-contained subject. Digital Terrain Modeling: Principles and Methodology is the only authored book to provide comprehensive coverage of recent developments in the field. The topics include terrain analysis, sampling strategy, acquisition methodology, surface modeling principles, triangulation algorithms, interpolation techniques, on-line and off-line quality control in data acquisition, DTM accuracy assessment and mathematical models for DTM accuracy prediction, multi-scale representation, data management, contouring, visual analysis (or visualization), the derivation of various types of terrain parameters, and future development and applications.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 323 pages
• Publisher: CRC (November 29, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415324629
• ISBN-13: 978-0415324625
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #872,762 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent overview of digital terrain modeling, December 29, 2007

By	G. Chastain "ContractorsOutpost" (Huntsville, Al United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is an excellent text providing a complete overview of the principles of digital terrain modeling. The reader will obtain a thorough understanding of terrain modeling from data sources and acquisition methods, to surface modeling. It provides insight into the methodology of creating a triangular irregular network, or TIN, model. It also provides insight into contouring, aspect angles, slope, drains (hydrological interpretation), etc. It also provides an excellent discussion of error and accuracy and how each are affected in the different phases of terrain data processing, from source/acquisition to final digital elevation model. Many mathematical methods are presented. I would recommend this text to anyone wishing to obtain an understanding of the processes and methodologies behind digital terrain modeling. The only reason that I did not give this text a 5-star rating is that I would have liked to have seen a more in-depth examination of efficient data processing algorithms with examples. But this is a minor deficiency and I would not let this keep someone from purchasing this text if he/she wishes to obtain a full understanded of digital terrain modeling. The References section is also quite useful pointing to many other interesting sources of information to further your knowledge.