diff --git a/Modules/Applications/AppFiltering/app/otbSmoothing.cxx b/Modules/Applications/AppFiltering/app/otbSmoothing.cxx
index 7bab30684a298d49128a797adb6af7ca3f14b6e0..4403eb82483cb65831730652845509b57b548c64 100644
--- a/Modules/Applications/AppFiltering/app/otbSmoothing.cxx
+++ b/Modules/Applications/AppFiltering/app/otbSmoothing.cxx
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ private:
     SetDefaultParameterFloat("type.gaussian.stdev", 2.0);
 
     AddParameter(ParameterType_Float, "type.gaussian.maxerror", "Maximum error");
-    SetParameterDescription("type.gaussian.stdev", "The algorithm will size the discrete kernel so that the error "
+    SetParameterDescription("type.gaussian.maxerror", "The algorithm will size the discrete kernel so that the error "
                             "resulting from truncation of the kernel is no greater than maxerror.");
     SetDefaultParameterFloat("type.gaussian.maxerror", 0.01);