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Publikationstyp: Beitrag in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift
Art der Begutachtung: Peer review (Publikation)
Titel: HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability
Autor/-in: Scherelis, Victoria
Döring, Michael
Laube, Patrick
et. al: No
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.13083
10.21256/zhaw-30132
Erschienen in: Transactions in GIS
Band(Heft): 27
Heft: 5
Seite(n): 1503
Seiten bis: 1525
Erscheinungsdatum: 24-Jun-2023
Verlag / Hrsg. Institution: Wiley
ISSN: 1361-1682
1467-9671
Sprache: Englisch
Schlagwörter: River width; Digital map processing; Historical map; Hydromorphological metric
Fachgebiet (DDC): 551: Geologie und Hydrologie
577: Ökologie
Zusammenfassung: Digital map processing techniques have enabled new computational methods to extract geographic features from scanned map sources. These are mainly historical maps and are rich in spatiotemporal information which can be derived by descriptive metrics. River channel width is such a typical ecological metric used to calculate properties such as water discharge rates and, generally, often applied in hydrological and ecological monitoring. Measures of river channel width in previous ecological work have successfully measured width based on in situ measurements or remote sensing efforts, but poorly captured the variability in river width due to simplifications of the river network or due to sparse availability of in situ measurements. As river width can greatly vary and change over space and time, capturing its variability with modern geospatial processing techniques is a key interest in interdisciplinary fields studying spatiotemporal changes of riverine properties. This article proposes HydroWidth, a small-scale approach to measure river width continuously along a channel, capable of capturing the variability in width in simple as well as complex river structures without the use of river masks. The small-scale approach is compared to two conventional vector-based discrete river width measurement techniques to test the robustness of the methods in terms of measuring river width and its variability. Furthermore, this article evaluates the adaptability of HydroWidth by performing three experiments measuring river width variability at rivers of different structure, length, and complexity. The methods are applied on rivers of historical map sources, allowing a novel perspective of applying algorithms measuring river width on non-airborne data sources. Lastly, the computational performance results of the conventional and HydroWidth methods at each experimental site are presented and discussed.
URI: https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/30132
Volltext Version: Publizierte Version
Lizenz (gemäss Verlagsvertrag): CC BY 4.0: Namensnennung 4.0 International
Departement: Life Sciences und Facility Management
Organisationseinheit: Institut für Umwelt und Natürliche Ressourcen (IUNR)
Publiziert im Rahmen des ZHAW-Projekts: HistoRiCH: Historical river change – Planning for the future by exploring the mapped past
Enthalten in den Sammlungen:Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management

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Scherelis, V., Döring, M., & Laube, P. (2023). HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability. Transactions in GIS, 27(5), 1503–1525. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13083
Scherelis, V., Döring, M. and Laube, P. (2023) ‘HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability’, Transactions in GIS, 27(5), pp. 1503–1525. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13083.
V. Scherelis, M. Döring, and P. Laube, “HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability,” Transactions in GIS, vol. 27, no. 5, pp. 1503–1525, Jun. 2023, doi: 10.1111/tgis.13083.
SCHERELIS, Victoria, Michael DÖRING und Patrick LAUBE, 2023. HydroWidth : a small‐scale approach to calculate river width and its variability. Transactions in GIS. 24 Juni 2023. Bd. 27, Nr. 5, S. 1503–1525. DOI 10.1111/tgis.13083
Scherelis, Victoria, Michael Döring, and Patrick Laube. 2023. “HydroWidth : A Small‐Scale Approach to Calculate River Width and Its Variability.” Transactions in GIS 27 (5): 1503–25. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13083.
Scherelis, Victoria, et al. “HydroWidth : A Small‐Scale Approach to Calculate River Width and Its Variability.” Transactions in GIS, vol. 27, no. 5, June 2023, pp. 1503–25, https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13083.


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