Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm...p31a05m&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #P31A-05
Mathematics
Logic
1848 Networks, 6225 Mars
Scientific paper
Geographical Information System GRID-based raster modeling of surface water runoff in the eastern Hellas region of Mars has been completed. We utilized the 0.0625 by 0.0625 degree topographic map of Mars collected by the Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) instrument to model watershed and surface runoff drainage systems. Scientific interpretation of these models with respect to ongoing geological mapping is presented in Mest et al., (2001). After importing a region of approximately 77,000,000 square kilometers into Arc/Info 8.0.2 we reprojected this digital elevation model (DEM) from a Mars sphere into a Mars ellipsoid. Using a simple cylindrical geographic projection and horizontal spatial units of decimal degrees and then an Albers projection with horizontal spatial units of meters, we completed basic hydrological modeling. Analysis of the raw DEM to determine slope, aspect, flow direction, watershed and flow accumulation grids demonstrated the need for correction of single pixel sink anomalies. After analysis of zonal elevation statistics associated with single pixel sinks, which identified 0.8 percent of the DEM points as having undefined surface water flow directions, we filled single pixel sink values of 89 meters or less. This correction is comparable with terrestrial DEMs that contain 0.9 percent to 4.7 percent of cells, which are sinks (Tarboton et al., 1991). The fill-corrected DEM was then used to determine slope, aspect, surface water flow direction and surface water flow accumulation. Within the region of interest 8,776 watersheds were identified. Using Arc/Info GRID flow direction and flow accumulation tools, regions of potential surface water flow accumulation were identified. These networks were then converted to a Strahler ordered stream network. Surface modeling produced Strahler orders one through six. As presented in Mest et al., (2001) comparisons of mapped features may prove compatible with drainage networks and watersheds derived using this methodology. Mest, Scott C., Crown, David A., and Harbert, William, 2001, Highland drainage basins and valley networks in the eastern Hellas Region of Mars, Abstract 1419, Lunar and Planetary Science XXXII Meeting Houston (CDROM). Tarboton D. G., Bras, R. L., and Rodriguez-Iturbe, 1991, On the Extraction of Channel Networks from Digital Elevation Data, Hydrological Processes, v. 5, 81-100. http://viking.eps.pitt.edu
Crown David A.
Harbert William
Mest Scott C.
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