Research on the Method of Building Dem by Contours

Abstract

Digital elevation model (DEM), as an important product of digital photogrammetry and digital surveying and mapping, it plays an increasingly important role in the field of surveying and mapping and geographic information system. In this paper, it introduces the current generation methods of DEM by contour, and analyzes those interpolation methods that commonly are used to build DEM, and then describes the advantages and disadvantages of different building DEM methods systematically. Focusing on the DEM that represented by Grid and TIN, it compares the optimization methods of interpolation contour data systematically, and makes the contour interpolating DEM reflect the surface condition of the real nature more effectively.