Elevation Data Compaction by Polynomial Modeling.
Abstract
This report details the status of ongoing research directed towards development of a near-term production implementation of digital data compression of terrain elevation information. The first section discusses the important data characteristics, the major applications, and the compression needs. The second section discusses the various published terrain representations, their capabilities and limitations. The third section presents an overview of the Polynomial Terrain Model's characteristics and construction. The next section contained the development plan identified for production implementation of the polynomial modeling technique, and the remaining sections report on the status of various phases of this development. The results showed that the Polynomial Matrix method is the most promising of the various digital terrain formats (DFT). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1978
- Accession Number
- ADA054003
Entities
People
- James R. Jancaitis
Organizations
- Geospatial Research Laboratory