An adaptive approach to selecting a flow-partition exponent for a multiple-flow-direction algorithm

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 443-458

  Qin, C ^a   Zhu, A X ^a,b   Pei, T ^a   Li, B ^a   Zhou, C ^a   Yang, L ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW MODELING; MODELING; SPATIAL VARIATION; WATERSHED;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 34047143811     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 17417546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658810601073240     Document Type: Article

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