High Accuracy Surface Modelling(HASM) constructed based on the fundamental theory of surface is more accurate than the classical methods in DEM construction.In order to give HASM a full evaluation
this paper introduced terrain representation error(Etr)
which was calculated by multi-resolution comparative analysis.Terrain representation model was built
which was regressed against resolution.The total DEM simulation error containing interpolation RMSE
Etr
etc.
is calculated in terms of error propagation theory.Canonical surface and Dong-Zhi-Yuan in Gansu province of China were selected to validate the efficiency of our methods.The results showed that the method presented in this paper can give a full evaluation of DEM error.HASM can construct more accurate and higher resolution DEM than the classical methods.