TecDEM: A MATLAB based toolbox for tectonic geomorphology, Part 1: Drainage network preprocessing and stream profile analysis

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 250-260

  Shahzad, Faisal ^a   Gloaguen, Richard ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Hack index; MATLAB; Stream profile analysis; Tectonics

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; FLOW DIRECTION; GEOSCIENTISTS; GLOBAL DEM; HACK INDEX; PAKISTAN; PROFILE ANALYSIS; PROFILE GENERATIONS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC GEOMORPHOLOGY; VECTORIZATION; WATERSHED DELINEATION;

DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HYDRAULICS; LANDFORMS; TECTONICS;

SURVEYING;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; GEOMORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOFTWARE; STREAM; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; WATERSHED;

KAGHAN VALLEY; KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; PAKISTAN;

EID: 78751620190     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.06.008     Document Type: Article

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