A comparison of geographical information systems-based algorithms for computing the TOPMODEL topographic index

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2004, Pages

  Pan, Feifei ^a   Peters Lidard, Christa D ^b   Sale, Michael J ^a   King, Anthony W ^a  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biflow direction algorithm; GIS; Multiple flow direction algorithm; Single flow direction algorithm; TOPMODEL; Topographic index

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

FLOW DIRECTION; TOPOGRAPHIC INDEX;

WATER RESOURCES;

ALGORITHM; FLOW MODELING; GIS; HILLSLOPE; INDEX METHOD; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 3242690635     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003069     Document Type: Article

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