Glossary

Demcompare common words and shortened terms are detailed here.

To update, follow glossary sphinx documentation in RST source documentation.

disp

The short version of “disparity”

disparity

The column difference between a pixel in the left image and its homologous pixel in the right image.

DEM

Digital Elevation Model. Usually means all elevation models in raster: DSM, DTM,…

DSM

Digital Surface Model. Represents the earth’s surface and includes all objects on it. See Digital Elevation Model

steps

In demcompare, it represents all functional steps in the DSM comparison pipeline.

ROI

Region of Interest means a subpart of the DSM raster in demcompare. It can be defined by a file or a bounding box.