Determination of 3D Displacements of Drainage Networks Extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) Using Linear-Based Methods
Department of Cartographic, Geodetic Engineering and Photogrammetry, University of Jaén, 23071 Jaén, Spain
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ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2017, 6(8), 234; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi6080234
Received: 15 June 2017 / Revised: 14 July 2017 / Accepted: 2 August 2017 / Published: 4 August 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographic Information Science and Spatial Analysis in Water Resources)
This study describes a new method developed to determine the 3D positional displacements of the drainage networks extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). The proposed method establishes several stages for data preparation. The displacements are derived by means of linestring-based assessment methods, which can be applied in 2D and 3D. Also, we propose the use of several tools (maps, aggregation of results, new indices, etc.) in order to obtain a wider assessment of positional accuracy, or a time change analysis. This approach supposes a novelty in drainage network studies both in the application of line-based methods and its expansion to 3D data. The method has been tested using a sample of channels extracted from DEMs of two different dates of a zone of about 600 square kilometers using as reference linestrings those extracted from another more recent DEM which had higher spatial accuracy and higher spatial resolution. The results have demonstrated the viability of the method proposed because of the obtaining of 3D displacement vectors, which showed the general and particular behavior of the channels selected.
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Keywords:
DEMs; channel displacement; drainage networks; positional accuracy; hydrology
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Mozas-Calvache, A.T.; Ureña-Cámara, M.A.; Ariza-López, F.J. Determination of 3D Displacements of Drainage Networks Extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) Using Linear-Based Methods. ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 2017, 6, 234.
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Mozas-Calvache AT, Ureña-Cámara MA, Ariza-López FJ. Determination of 3D Displacements of Drainage Networks Extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) Using Linear-Based Methods. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2017; 6(8):234.
Chicago/Turabian StyleMozas-Calvache, Antonio Tomás; Ureña-Cámara, Manuel Antonio; Ariza-López, Francisco Javier. 2017. "Determination of 3D Displacements of Drainage Networks Extracted from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) Using Linear-Based Methods" ISPRS Int. J. Geo-Inf. 6, no. 8: 234.
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