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DTM performed better (7.60m LE90) than the SRTM (10m
LE90) on the whole study area.
ACKONWLEDGEMENTS
The author would like to thank Dr. Nandakumar (ISRO and
Secretary of ISPRS WG IV/9) for the establishment and
coordination of the ISPRS-ISRO Cartosat-1 Scientific
Assessment Programme (C-SAP) and the ISRO-ISPRS C-SAP
Evaluation Team for selecting our Institute as Investigator.
Many thanks are also addressed to Dr. Simon Kay (EC-JRC),
Principal-Investigator of the Mausanne les Alpilles test site, for
providing GCPs and reference DTM.
Finally, the author whish to thank NASA for providing the
SRTM DTM through their website.
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Table 5. Accuracy of the Cartosat-1 medium-resolution DTM.