Hydraulic Splines: A Hybrid Approach to Modeling River Channel Geometries

Authors:
Maik Flanagin;Aurelien Grenotton;Jay Ratcliff;Kevin B. Shaw;John Sample;Mahdi Abdelguerfi
Affiliations:
Lockheed Martin IT;École Centrale de Nantes;US Army Corps of Engineers;US Naval Research Laboratory;US Naval Research Laboratory;University of New Orleans
Venue:
Computing in Science and Engineering
Year:
2007

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Abstract

The hydraulic spline algorithm generates irregular 2D channel grids from highly accurate cross-sectional survey data at any desired resolution, facilitating its integration with high-density light detection and ranging (lidar) data.