Extraction of hydrological proximity measures from DEMs using parallel processing

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1696-1709

  Tesfa, Teklu K ^a   Tarboton, David G ^b   Watson, Daniel W ^c   Schreuders, Kimberly A T ^b   Baker, Matthew E ^d   Wallace, Robert M ^e  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Utah State University   (United States)

^c University of Maryland ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model analysis; Flow distance; Hydrological proximity measures; Message passing interface; Parallel computation; Topographic attributes

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLOW DISTANCE; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; PARALLEL COMPUTATION; PROXIMITY MEASURE; TOPOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTES;

ALGORITHMS; CELLS; DATA STRUCTURES; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; ECOLOGY; GEOLOGIC MODELS; MESSAGE PASSING; SURFACE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURVEYING;

GEOMORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; FLOW MODELING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; HYDROLOGICAL RESPONSE; LAND COVER; LAND SURFACE; PARALLEL COMPUTING; SOIL DEPTH; TERRAIN;

EID: 84855485243     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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