Improving the positional accuracy of drainage networks extracted from Global Digital Elevation Models using OpenStreetMap data

Title:

Improving the positional accuracy of drainage networks extracted from Global Digital Elevation Models using OpenStreetMap data

Creator:

Monteiro, Elisabete S.V., Fonte, Cidália C., and de Lima, João L.M.P.

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:25ca1962-9ac1-4d3a-a0e2-c49aea43b7bf
uuid:25ca1962-9ac1-4d3a-a0e2-c49aea43b7bf
doi:10.1515/johh-2017-0057

Subject:

drainage networks, GDEMs, OpenStreetMap, and positional accuracy

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Drainage networks allow the extraction of topographic parameters that are useful for basins characterization and necessary for hydrologic modelling. One way to obtain drainage networks is by their extraction from Digital Elevation Models (DEMs). However, it is common that no freely available DEMs at regional or national level exist. One way to overcome this situation is to use the available free Global Digital Elevation Models (GDEMs). However, these datasets have relatively low spatial resolutions, 30 and 90 meters for ASTER and SRTM, respectively, and it has been shown that their accuracy is relatively low in several regions (e.g., Kääb, 2005; Mukul et al., 2017). In this study a methodology is presented to improve the positional accuracy of the drainage networks extracted from the GDEMs using crowdsourced data available in the collaborative project OpenStreetMap (OSM). In this approach only free and global datasets are used, enabling its application to any location of the world. The methodology uses elevation points derived from the GDEMs and the water lines extracted from the collaborative project OSM to generate new DEMs, from which new water lines are obtained. The methodology is applied to two study areas and the positional accuracy of the used data and the obtained results are assessed using reference data.

Language:

Slovak

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Source:

Journal of hydrology and hydromechanics | 2018 Volume:66 | Number:3

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