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The first step when performing the quality assessment of our interpolated DEMs was tocompare derived contours from the three different resolutions with the original contours.As can be seen in Figure 5.5 the degree of agreement, regarding terrain structure,increases with increased resolution.(a) (b) (c)Figure 5.5 Derived contours from DEMs in different resolutions. a) 100 meters, b) 30 meters andc) 10 meters. Red lines representing original contours and black lines the derived contours fromthe interpolated DEM.The second step in the quality assessment was to visually inspect shaded relief images ofthe interpolated DEMs. This step made it possible to locate a number of anomalies thatshowed up as very contrasting areas. It was possible to detect both geometricaldisplacement and attribute errors. An example of geometrical displacement is verticaledge errors, which can be seen in Figure 5.6 below. These errors were edited bycorrecting the attribute table and the interpolation repeated until a satisfying result wasobtained. A certain degree of terracing can also be noticed along the slopes in the figure.(a)Figure 5.6 Shaded relief of DEM with 10-meter resolution. a) Showing digitised errors leading tovertical edge error problems and (b) same area after editing of input data.(b)50
To evaluate accuracy of the absolute elevation of the DEMs, we calculated the RMS-at four different reference locations. The result, which can be seen in Table 5.1errorsshows that the lowest RMS-errors occurs at steep areas in the DEM with 10-meterresolution. At flat areas the RMS-error are within the same range of values, regardless ofresolution. There is a noticeable increase in RMS-error with increased cell-size in steepareas.Table 5.1 RMS-error for the DEM at the references lines, in three different resolutions.Resolution Flat 1 Flat 2 Steep 1 Steep 2 Mean RMS100 meter 14.64488 14.32897 29.07937 43.40787 25.3652730 meter 12.84792 14.78252 16.47471 23.72902 16.9585410 meter 12.83892 15.45371 7.22123 7.36828 10.72054The outcome of the quality assessment points to that the 10-meter resolution DEM is agood choice for our analysis. It has the highest degree of accuracy regarding both terrainstructure and absolute elevation. Figure 5.7 shows the digital elevation model over ourstudy area.Figure 5.7 A 3-D image of the DEM with 10-meter resolution over the districts Kisoro and Kabale.A five-time vertical exaggeration factor has been used to highlight the shapes of the landscape.Lighter areas represent high elevation and darker low.5.2.2 AlgorithmThe first unprocessed output data, for the entire study area, is produced by the algorithmwithin a couple of minutes. A selection from the output data can be seen in Figure 5.8a.A first look at the output gives a rather vague impression of what the result actuallyrepresent, but when applying the contours (see Figure 5.8b) the potential sites appear51
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Seminar series nr 121Finding Potent
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