Application of fractal techniques to the comparative evaluation of two methods of extracting channel networks from digital elevation models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 389-399

  Ichoku, Charles ^a   Karnieli, Arnon ^a   Verchovsky, Irina ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHANNEL NETWORK; DEM; FRACTAL METHOD;

EID: 0029669201     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95WR02762     Document Type: Article

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