@article {Mitasova2005IEEE, title = {{Simultaneous Spline Approximation and Topographic Analysis for Lidar Elevation Data in Open-Source GIS}}, journal = {IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters}, volume = {2}, year = {2005}, pages = {375-379}, author = {Mitasova, H. and Mitas, L. and Harmon, R.} }