TopoToolbox: A set of Matlab functions for topographic analysis

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 770-781

  Schwanghart, Wolfgang ^a   Kuhn, Nikolaus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Flow networks; Graph Theory; Linear algebra; Matlab; Relief analysis; Sparse matrices

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOW GRAPHS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAPH THEORY; LINEAR ALGEBRA; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW NETWORK; RELIEF ANALYSIS; SPARSE MATRICES; SPARSE MATRIX COMPUTATIONS; SPATIAL NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS; USER-FRIENDLY-SOFTWARE;

MATLAB;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; GIS; GRAPHICAL METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL CHANGE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; RELIEF; RESEARCH WORK; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATER FLOW;

EID: 76749097184     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2009.12.002     Document Type: Article

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