Hydraulic Splines: A Hybrid Approach to Modeling River Channel Geometries

Maik Flanagin, Aurélien Grenotton, Jay Ratcliff, Kevin Shaw, John T. Sample, Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Computing in Science & Engineering · 2007 · 14 citations · 7 references

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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.

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