Guides to elevated analysis

This section is a collection of guides gathering background knowledge related to elevation data to help grasp how to best elevate your analysis!

• Georeferencing intricacies
  • Types of elevation data
  • A third georeferenced dimension
  • The interpretation of pixel value for DEMs
• Static surfaces as error proxy
  • The great benefactor of elevation analysis
  • Use for coregistration and further uncertainty analysis
• Grasping accuracy and precision
  • Why do we need to understand accuracy and precision?
  • Accuracy and precision of elevation data
  • How to get the best out of your elevation data?
• Need for robust estimators
  • Measures of central tendency and dispersion
  • Measures of spatial autocorrelation
  • Regression analysis
• Spatial statistics for error analysis
  • Assumptions for inference in spatial statistics
  • Heteroscedasticity
  • Standardization
  • Spatial correlation of errors
  • Error propagation