A comparison between LiDAR and photogrammetry digital terrain models in a forest area on Tenerife Island

This paper compares two types of digital terrain models (DTMs) with ground elevation measures collected through field work in a dense forest area on the island of Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). The first was an existing DTM derived from altimetric features obtained by manual photogrammetric restitution. The second DTM was computed from aerial LiDAR data with a nadir density of 0.8 points·m−2. Both DTMs have a pixel size of 5 m. The field work...