Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is the main data source for digital drainage network extraction. But the extracted result would have great subjectivity because of the scale influences by the parameters such as the drainage area threshold and DEM resolution. Therefore, it is of great significance that how to optimize these factors for extracting the drainage networks better. The existing researches are mainly concerned on any two factors qualitatively or quantitatively. It is yet to be answered about how to define the drainage area threshold and the spatial resolution in a given research area. Taking Xiamen City of Fujian Province as the study area and using the Digital Line Graphic (DLG) on the scale of 1:10 000 as the original data to construct the DEM with grid cell size of 2.5m, we re-sampled the DEM into a series of DEMs with nested grid size as 5m, 10m, 20m, 40m, 80m, 160m and 320m using the Nearest Re-sampling method. And then the D8 algorithm and the Hydrology module in ArcGIS software was employed to extract the drainage networks from each DEM mentioned above with 7 drainage area thresholds as 0.9km2, 2.7km2, 4.5km2, 7.2km2, 9km2, 13.5km2 and 18km2. Finally, the length of the drainage networks, as a key factor, was calculated to analyse quantitatively the relationship between the three parameters mentioned above and to further discuss the optimization of these parameters. The research results revealed that:(1)The length of the drainage networks obeys one composite power function;(2)When thresholds keeps constant, drainage network features decreased with DEM grid cell size continuously;(3)According to the mathematical analysis of the composite function, the optimal grid cell size and drainage area threshold are 40m and 7.2km2 respectively. The extracted drainage networks with the optimal parameters met with those extracted from the SPOT5 remote sensing image very well.
CHEN Junming, LIN Guangfa, YANG Zhihai, CHEN Hanyue
. Parameters Optimization in Extracting Digital Drainage Networks with DEM[J]. Journal of Geo-information Science, 2011
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DOI: 10.3724/SP.J.1047.2011.00032
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