Path-based methods for the determination of nondispersive drainage directions in grid-based digital elevation models

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Orlandini, Stefano ^a   Moretti, Giovanni ^a   Franchini, Marco ^a   Aldighieri, Barbara ^b   Testa, Bruno ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

Author keywords

Drainage areas; Drainage networks; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; LEAST TRANSVERSAL DEVIATION;

CATCHMENTS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; PATH ANALYSIS;

EID: 1542546232     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002WR001639     Document Type: Article

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