A comparison of existing surficial hydrological data layers in a low-relief forested Ontario landscape with those derived from a LiDAR DEM

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 850-865

  Remmel, Tarmo K ^a   Todd, Kenton W ^b   Buttle, James ^c  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

DEM; Flow routing; Interpolation; LiDAR; OBM; Spatial resolution; Strahler stream order; Topographic wetness index; Watershed

Indexed keywords

FORESTRY; HIGHWAY PLANNING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION; INVESTMENTS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SURVEYING; WATERSHEDS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW ROUTING; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM ORDER; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FORESTRY; HYDROLOGY; INTERPOLATION; INVESTMENT; LIDAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STEREO IMAGE; WATERSHED;

FORESTRY; GEOLOGY; INVESTMENT; PLANNING; RADAR; RESOLUTION; ROADS; WATER; WATER SHEDS;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

EID: 65649150284     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc84850-6     Document Type: Article

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