Methods and applications in surface depression analysis
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Abstract
Gridded surface data sets are often incorporated into digital data bases, but extracting information from the data sets requires specialized raster processing techniques different from those historically used on remotely sensed and thematic data. Frequently, the information desired of a gridded surface is directly related to the topologic peaks and pits of the surface. A method for isolating these peaks and pits has been developed, and two examples of its application are presented.
The perimeter of a pit feature is the highest-valued closed contour surrounding a minimum level. The method devised for finding all such contours is designed to operate on large raster surfaces. If the data are first inversely mapped, this algorithm will find surface peaks rather than pits.
In one example the depressions, or pits, expressed in Digital Elevation Model data, are hydrologically significant potholes. Measurement of their storage capacity is the objective. The potholes are found and labelled as polygons; their watershed boundaries are found and attributes are computed.
In the other example, geochemical surfaces, which were interpolated from chemical analyses of irregularly distributed stream sediment samples, were analyzed to determine the magnitude, morphology, and areal extent of peaks (geochemical anomalies).
| Publication type | Conference Paper |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Conference Paper |
| Title | Methods and applications in surface depression analysis |
| Year Published | 1987 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cartography and Geographic Information Society |
| Contributing office(s) | Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center |
| Description | 8 p. |
| Larger Work Type | Book |
| Larger Work Subtype | Conference publication |
| Larger Work Title | Auto-Carto VIII: Proceedings of the international symposium on computer-assisted cartography |
| First page | 137 |
| Last page | 144 |
| Conference Title | International Symposium on Computer-Assisted Cartography, 8th (Auto-Carto 8) |
| Conference Location | Baltimore, MD |
| Conference Date | Mar 29- Apr 3, 1987 |
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