Hydrologic terrain processing using parallel computing

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2540-2545

  Wallis, C ^a   Wallace, R ^b   Tarboton, D G ^a   Watson, D W ^a   Schreuders, K A T ^a   Tesfa, T K ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Hydrology; Message Passing Interface; Parallel Processing; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; ITERATIVE METHODS; LANDFORMS; LARGE DATASET; MESSAGE PASSING; PARALLEL ALGORITHMS; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROUND SAMPLE DISTANCES; INFORMATION CONTENTS; MEMORY REQUIREMENTS; MESSAGE PASSING INTERFACE; PARALLEL IMPLEMENTATIONS; SINGLE PROCESSOR IMPLEMENTATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85086240577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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