• DocumentCode
    1370791
  • Title

    Automatic extraction of drainage network from digital terrain elevation data: a local network approach

  • Author

    Fern, Alan ; Musavi, M.T. ; Miranda, J.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Maine Univ., Orono, ME, USA
  • Volume
    36
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1998
  • fDate
    5/1/1998 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    1007
  • Lastpage
    1011
  • Abstract
    A local network for the automatic extraction of drainage networks from elevation data is described. The methodology demonstrates how a large number of locally connected processing units can solve the global problem of drainage network extraction. The methodology has advantages over previous methods and is able to extract lakes as well as streams and rivers
  • Keywords
    feature extraction; geomorphology; geophysical signal processing; geophysical techniques; geophysics computing; hydrological techniques; image processing; rivers; topography (Earth); automatic extraction; digital terrain elevation data; drainage network; feature extraction; geomorphology; global problem; hydrology; image processing; land surface topography; local network approach; locally connected processing unit; remote sensing; river; Computer errors; Computer networks; Data mining; Image databases; Lakes; Level measurement; Rivers; Spatial resolution; Terrain mapping; Water resources;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0196-2892
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/36.673692
  • Filename
    673692