Efficient flow computation on massive grid terrain datasets

GeoInformatica

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 283-313

  Arge, Lars ^a   Chase, Jeffrey S ^a   Halpin, Patrick ^b   Toma, Laura ^a   Vitter, Jeffrey S ^a   Urban, Dean ^b   Wickremesinghe, Rajiv ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alogorithms; Flow accumulation; Flow direction; Flow routing; I O complexity; Large data; Terraflow; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

FLOW ACCUMULATION;

GEOPHYSICS;

ALGORITHM; DATA PROCESSING; DATA SET; FLOW PATTERN; GIS; TERRAIN; WATERSHED;

EID: 0242349811     PISSN: 13846175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025526421410     Document Type: Article

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