A physically-based method for removing pits in digital elevation models

Advances in Water Resources

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2151-2158

  Grimaldi, Salvatore ^a,b   Nardi, Fernando ^b   Benedetto, Francesco Di ^b   Istanbulluoglu, Erkan ^c   Bras, Rafael L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

DEM; Depressions in DEMs; Digital elevation models; Drainage networks; Errors in DEMs; Geographical Information Systems; GIS; Landscape evolution models; Pit filling; Sinks in DEMs

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION MODELS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MECHANICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GIS; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; SOFTWARE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 34547581673     PISSN: 03091708     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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