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Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1637-2016
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-1637-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 20, issue 4
Research article
 | 
29 Apr 2016
Research article |  | 29 Apr 2016

Assessing the quality of digital elevation models obtained from mini unmanned aerial vehicles for overland flow modelling in urban areas

João P. Leitão, Matthew Moy de Vitry, Andreas Scheidegger, and Jörg Rieckermann

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