A new approach to simulate positional error of line segment in GIS

To determine the distribution of positional error of a line segment, Monte Carlo approach is applied to simulate the probability density function of a line segment with the assumption that the error of endpoints in a line segment follows a two-dimensional normal distribution. For such purpose, a stochastic generator used for uncertain endpoints with the two-dimensional normal distribution is presented. This forms the basis of the generation of random line segment for the simulation of the error model of a whole line segment. The error models cover the cases where two endpoints are either independent or dependent to each other, also including a special case that the distance between two random endpoints in a line segment is close enough.