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Articles | Volume XLII-3
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-885-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-3-885-2018
30 Apr 2018
 | 30 Apr 2018

TOPOGRAPHIC FEATURES OF MALYY NARYN RIVER WATERSHED BASED ON DIFFERENT DATA

M. Li, L. Chen, Y. Cui, and M. Zhang

Keywords: ZY3 DSM, SRTM DEM, ASTER GDEM, Topographic Features, Slop, HI, River Network Density, River Network Discrepancy

Abstract. This paper researched the influence on the topographical characteristics of watersheds by setting different catchment area thresholds based on different data sets, namely ZY3 DSM, SRTM DEM and ASTER GDEM. Slope, hypsometric integral, river network density and river network discrepancy are analyzed and compared. The results are as follows: a) Three data sets all can express the same rough terrain characteristics and the same degree of watershed topography development; b) ZY3 DSM can reflect terrain information over the Malyy Naryn River watershed in most detail and it has the best expression effect on the terrain among the three data sets of ZY3 DSM, SRTM DEM and ASTER GDEM, followed by SRTM DEM, and the effect of ASTER GDEM is the worst; c) The similarity of river networks extracted by ZY3 DSM and SRTM DEM is the highest, and the similarity between ZY3 DSM and ASTER GDEM is the lowest one.