An efficient and comprehensive method for drainage network extraction from DEM with billions of pixels using a size-balanced binary search tree

Geomorphology

Volumn 238, Issue , 2015, Pages 56-67

  Bai, Rui ^a   Li, Tiejian ^a   Huang, Yuefei ^a   Li, Jiaye ^a   Wang, Guangqian ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Binary search tree; Depression filling; Digital elevation model; Drainage network extraction; Least cost path search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE NETWORK; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LIDAR; PIXEL; RIVER BASIN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84924757959     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2015.02.028     Document Type: Article

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