[1]BAO Wei-jia,CHENG Xian-fu,CHEN Xu-dong.Effect of Horizontal Resolution of Raster DEM on Drainage Basin Characteristics[J].Research of Soil and Water Conservation,2011,18(02):129-132,138.
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Research of Soil and Water Conservation[ISSN 1005-3409/CN 61-1272/P] Volume:
18
Number of periods:
2011 02
Page number:
129-132,138
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Public date:
2011-04-20
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Effect of Horizontal Resolution of Raster DEM on Drainage Basin Characteristics
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BAO Wei-jia, CHENG Xian-fu, CHEN Xu-dong
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College of Territorial Resources and Tourism, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, Anhui 241003, China
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- Keywords:
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DEM; small watershed; horizontal resolution; drainage basin characteristic; topographic index
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TP79
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- Abstract:
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Based on digital elevation model (DEM) of the watershed terrain analysis, raster DEM resolution on the results of the analysis has great impact. In this paper, taking Longtan small watershed inupstream of the Hangpu river basin as an example, by means of ten different spatial resolution DEMs of the study watershed from 5 m to 50 m respectively, the basin characteristics were extracted with ArcHydro Tools to investigate the effects of DEMs in different spatial resolution on the performance of the simulations induced by the topographic characteristic parameters. The statistical results showed no evident different derived in the watershed area and longest channel length retrieval from different resolution DEMs, but greater differences were found in total channel length and channel density extractions in small watershed scale. The change of channel density tends to be stable when DEM resolution is lower than 15 m. Compared the extracted results under different resolution of DEMs, it was found that the bigger size of DEM raster is, the more rough extraction of watershed characteristics are. For examining the distribution Curves of Topographic Index (TI) calculated by different grid resolution, it was found that TI was influenced by DEM resolution, TI fluctuates evenly when the highest resolution DEM was employed, but considerably with the poorest resolution DEM being used. The distribution curves of TI calculated by lower than 15 m grid resolution were more discrete and had large different from the highest resolution DEM being used, which implies its potential usage in Suitable resolution selection.