The assignment of drainage direction over flat surfaces in raster digital elevation models

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 193, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 204-213

  Garbrecht, Jurgen ^a   Martz, Lawrence W ^b  

^a USDA ARS GRAZINGLANDS RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDROLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

RASTER DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS;

DRAINAGE;

DRAINAGE; FLOW PATTERNS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DEM; DRAINAGE DIRECTION; GRADIENT; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031172437     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-1694(96)03138-1     Document Type: Article

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