Coding of watershed and river hierarchy to support GIS-based hydrological analyses at different scales

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 688-696

  Fürst, Josef ^a   Hörhan, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

Drainage network; GIS; Hydrologic modelling; Pfafstetter coding; Scale; Watershed hierarchy

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LANDFORMS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; GIS; HYDROLOGIC MODELLING; PFAFSTETTER CODING; SCALE; WATERSHED HIERARCHY;

WATERSHEDS;

DRAINAGE NETWORK; GIS; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; RIVER; WATER BUDGET; WATERSHED;

AUSTRIA; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 60249099252     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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