Generalized terrain-based flow analysis of digital elevation models

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 2000-2006

  Tarboton, D G ^a   Schreuders, K A T ^a   Watson, D W ^a   Baker, M E ^b  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation models; Hydrology; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; CELLS; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; CYTOLOGY; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FLOW FIELDS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; FUNCTIONS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LARGE DATASET; RECURSIVE FUNCTIONS; SURVEYING; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MATHEMATICAL FUNCTIONS; PARALLEL PROCESSING ARCHITECTURES; RECURSIVE CALCULATIONS; SPATIAL DISCRETIZATIONS; STREAMSIDE VEGETATION; TOPOGRAPHIC REPRESENTATION;

FLOW VISUALIZATION;

EID: 85086251660     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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