An Assessment of the SRTM Topographic Products - Jet Propulsion ...

CHAPTER 2. ABSOLUTE HEIGHT ERROR 26
Counts
CDF
1
0.8
0.6
0.4
0.2
300000
25000
20000
15000
10000
5000
0
Mean: 1.3 m STD: 3.8 m 90% Absolute Error: 6.0 m
(b)
(a)
Africa
-20 -10 0 10 20
Height Error (m)
(d)
(c)
5 10 15 20
|Height Error| (m)
Figure 2.1: Africa kinematic GPS height comparison. Panel (a) shows the distribution of the signed
error; panel (b) the corresponding cummulative distribution function; panel (c) is the distribution
of the error magnitude; and panel (d) is the cummulative distribution of the error magnitude.