Optimal removal of spurious pits in grid digital elevation models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Soille, Pierre ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Carving; Digital elevation model (DEM); Filling; Morphological image analysis; Pits

Indexed keywords

COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

GRID DIGITAL EVALUATION MODELS; OUTFLOW POINT; SPURIOUS PITS;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; IMAGE ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY;

EID: 12544255571     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003060     Document Type: Article

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