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An Interview with Dr. David F. Maune

Dr. David Maune discusses what he learned from his years of active duty in the U.S. Army, his motivation behind editing “Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual,” as well as progress made in recent digital elevation models. The article also includes chapter-by-chapter descriptions of “The DEM Users Manual.” Courtesy Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing ©2019 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland, www.asprs.org

Dave Maune

Dr. David Maune discusses what he learned from his years of active duty in the U.S. Army, his motivation behind editing “Digital Elevation Model Technologies and Applications: The DEM Users Manual,” as well as progress made in recent digital elevation models. The article also includes chapter-by-chapter descriptions of “The DEM Users Manual.”

Courtesy Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing

©2019 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, Maryland, www.asprs.org

Published in Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, January 2019.

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