Deep learning-enhanced extraction of drainage networks from digital elevation models

X Mao, JK Chow, Z Su, YH Wang, J Li, T Wu… - … Modelling & Software, 2021 - Elsevier
Drainage network extraction is essential for different research and applications. However,
traditional methods have low efficiency, low accuracy for flat regions, and difficulties in …

Automated road breaching to enhance extraction of natural drainage networks from elevation models through deep learning

L Stanislawski, T Brockmeyer… - … Archives of the …, 2018 - isprs-archives.copernicus.org
High-resolution (HR) digital elevation models (DEMs), such as those at resolutions of 1 and
3 meters, have increasingly become more widely available, along with lidar point cloud data …

[HTML][HTML] High-efficient extraction of drainage networks from digital elevation models constrained by enhanced flow enforcement from known river maps

T Wu, J Li, T Li, B Sivakumar, G Zhang, G Wang - Geomorphology, 2019 - Elsevier
Drainage network extraction plays an important role in geomorphologic analyses, hydrologic
modeling, and non-point source pollutant simulation, among others. Flow enforcement, by …

A robust channel network extraction method combining discrete curve evolution and the skeleton construction technique

X Zheng, H Xiong, J Gong, L Yue - Advances in Water Resources, 2015 - Elsevier
The automatic mapping of drainage networks from terrain representation has been an
interesting topic in hydrological and geomorphological modeling. However, the existing …

A combined algorithm for automated drainage network extraction from digital elevation models

Y Yan, J Tang, P Pilesjö - Hydrological Processes, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Drainage networks are the basis for segmentation of watersheds, an essential component in
hydrological modelling, biogeochemical applications, and resource management plans …

[HTML][HTML] Automatic Detection of Ditches and Natural Streams from Digital Elevation Models Using Deep Learning

MDST Busarello, AM Ågren, F Westphal… - Computers & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Policies focused on waterbody protection and restoration have been suggested to European
Union member countries for some time, but to adopt these policies on a large scale the …

[HTML][HTML] Drainage ditch network extraction from lidar data using deep convolutional neural networks in a low relief landscape

L Du, GW McCarty, X Li, X Zhang, MC Rabenhorst… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Drainage networks composed of small, channelized ditches are very common in the eastern
United States. These are human-made features commonly constructed for wetland drainage …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-enhanced detection of road culverts in high-resolution digital elevation models: Improving stream network accuracy in Sweden

W Lidberg - Journal of Hydrology: Regional Studies, 2025 - Elsevier
Study region Sweden, a mostly forested country with many small forest roads obstructing
topographical modelling of shallow groundwater and streams. Study focus Maps have …

Drainage Pattern Recognition of River Network Based on Graph Convolutional Neural Network

X Xu, P Liu, M Guo - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023 - mdpi.com
Drainage network pattern recognition is a significant task with wide applications in
geographic information mining, map cartography, water resources management, and urban …

Learning a river network extractor using an adaptive loss function

F Isikdogan, A Bovik… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We have created a deep-learning-based river network extraction model, called DeepRiver,
that learns the characteristics of rivers from synthetic data and generalizes them to natural …