Journal of Geographic Information System

Vol.9 No.3(2017), Paper ID 77065, 15 pages

DOI:10.4236/jgis.2017.93021

 

Quantifying the Accuracy of LiDAR-Derived DEM in Deciduous Eastern Forests of the Cumberland Plateau

 

Marco A. Contreras, Wesley Staats, Jian Yiang, David Parrott

 

Associate Professor of Forest Management, Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology, Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
Research Assistant, Department of Forestry, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA

 

Copyright © 2017 Marco A. Contreras, Wesley Staats, Jian Yiang, David Parrott et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

 

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Contreras, M. , Staats, W. , Yiang, J. and Parrott, D. (2017) Quantifying the Accuracy of LiDAR-Derived DEM in Deciduous Eastern Forests of the Cumberland Plateau. Journal of Geographic Information System, 9, 339-353. doi: 10.4236/jgis.2017.93021.

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