A GIS numerical framework to study the process basis of scaling statistics in river networks

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 404-408

  Mantilla, Ricardo ^a   Gupta, Vijay K ^a  

^a University of Colorado at Boulder   (United States)

Author keywords

CUENCAS; Flow simulations; Hortonian framework; River network analysis; Terrain discretization

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DRAINAGE; RIVERS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

CUENCAS; FLOW SIMULATIONS; HORTONIAN FRAMEWORKS; RIVER NETWORK ANALYSIS; TERRAIN DISCRETIZATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 27744523712     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2005.853571     Document Type: Article

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