An automated method for constructing contour-based digital elevation models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 3931-3940

  Maunder, Chris J ^a,b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MODELING;

ALGORITHMS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLOW OF WATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CONTOUR-BASED ELEMENT NETWORKS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS (DEM);

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 0033237278     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900166     Document Type: Article

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