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Contour Generation Algorithm and Quality Evaluation of Regular Hexagon Grid DEM
Received date: 2021-07-17
Revised date: 2021-08-13
Online published: 2022-06-25
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Key Projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China National Natural Science Foundation of China(41531180)
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Due to the advantages of isotropy, adjacency equivalence, and high fitting accuracy, regular hexagonal grid is used as the grid unit of regular grid DEM data structure and has been applied to digital terrain analysis such as flow direction analysis and valley line extraction. However, its quality detection and evaluation has not been well studied, and the quality of DEM directly affects the correctness and reliability of subsequent data analysis results and related decisions. Conventional methods such as checkpoint method and profile method can only evaluate the error of DEM locally, and cannot comprehensively evaluate the quality of DEM. Contour lines can reflect the overall situation of topography. Therefore, contour playback method is a relatively comprehensive and accurate method to evaluate the quality of DEM by analyzing the quality of playback contour lines and then detecting and evaluating the quality of DEM. Therefore, this paper applies the vertex height difference marking method to the grid structure of hexagonal DEM, proposes a contour generation algorithm for regular hexagonal grid DEM, and evaluates and analyzes the data quality of regular hexagonal grid DEM. Firstly, this paper uses three indexes: the topological correctness of the generated contour, the fit with the original contour, and the maintenance of bending features to evaluate the contour tracked by the vertex height difference marking method under the hexagonal grid structure. It has no topological errors such as self-intersection, fits well with the original contour, and maintains the bending features well, which proves the feasibility of the algorithm. In addition, this generation method is applied to the quality comparison of DEM with different regular grids, that is, the contour lines of quadrilateral DEM and hexagonal DEM are generated respectively based on the vertex height difference marking method, and the quality of contour lines generated by hexagonal DEM and quadrilateral DEM is compared based on the above three indexes, so as to compare the quality difference between hexagonal DEM and quadrilateral DEM. The experimental comparison shows that under the same resolution, the contour played back by hexagonal DEM has a higher fit with the original contour, and the bending feature is maintained better, and with the decrease of resolution, the decrease of fit is smaller, the loss of bending feature is less, there is no sharp angle, excessive shape deformation, etc. Therefore, the quality of hexagonal DEM is better than that of quadrilateral DEM, and with the decrease of resolution, the accuracy loss of hexagonal DEM is smaller.
XIAO Kun , AI Tinghua , WANG Lu . Contour Generation Algorithm and Quality Evaluation of Regular Hexagon Grid DEM[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2022 , 24(4) : 643 -656 . DOI: 10.12082/dqxxkx.2022.210405
表1 六边形DEM等值点存在情况Tab. 1 The existence of hexagon DEM equivalent points |
顶点高差标记情况 | 等值点可能存在个数/个 |
---|---|
情况① 6正0负/6负0正 | 0 |
情况② 1正5负/1负5正 | 2 |
情况③ 2正4负/2负4正 | 2/4 |
情况④ 3正3负 | 2/4/6 |
表2 6种分辨率下2种DEM格网边长对比Tab. 2 Comparison of grid side length of two kinds of DEM under six resolutions |
分辨率编号 | 格网单元边长/m | |
---|---|---|
六边形 | 四边形 | |
1 | 50.0 | 46.5 |
2 | 100.0 | 93.0 |
3 | 150.0 | 139.5 |
4 | 200.0 | 186.0 |
5 | 250.0 | 232.5 |
6 | 300.0 | 279.0 |
表3 6种分辨率下六边形DEM生成的等高线平均偏移量Tab. 3 Average offset of contour lines generated by hexagon DEM at six resolutions |
分辨率编号 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
平均偏移量/m | 6.68 | 8.84 | 11.02 | 12.84 | 14.45 | 16.44 |
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