Objective extraction of channel heads from high-resolution topographic data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 4283-4304

  Clubb, Fiona J ^a   Mudd, Simon M ^a   Milodowski, David T ^a   Hurst, Martin D ^b   Slater, Louise J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

channel heads; drainage density; LiDAR; sediment transport

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLING; CHANNEL HEADS; CO-ORDINATE SYSTEM; DRAINAGE DENSITY; HILLSLOPE TOPOGRAPHY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; SCALING RELATIONSHIPS; USER-DEFINED PARAMETERS;

FORECASTING;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; LOCATION THEORY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

EID: 84902371066     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015167     Document Type: Article

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