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Distributed Parallel D8 Up-Slope Area Calculation in Digital Elevation Models

Barnes, Richard; Lehman, Clarence; Mulla, David

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<identifier identifierType="DOI">10.5281/zenodo.1162392</identifier>
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<creatorName>Barnes, Richard</creatorName>
<givenName>Richard</givenName>
<familyName>Barnes</familyName>
<nameIdentifier nameIdentifierScheme="ORCID" schemeURI="http://orcid.org/">0000-0002-0204-6040</nameIdentifier>
<affiliation>University of Minnesota</affiliation>
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<creator>
<creatorName>Lehman, Clarence</creatorName>
<givenName>Clarence</givenName>
<familyName>Lehman</familyName>
<affiliation>University of Minnesota</affiliation>
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<creator>
<creatorName>Mulla, David</creatorName>
<givenName>David</givenName>
<familyName>Mulla</familyName>
<affiliation>University of Minnesota</affiliation>
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<titles>
<title>Distributed Parallel D8 Up-Slope Area Calculation in Digital Elevation Models</title>
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<publisher>Zenodo</publisher>
<publicationYear>2011</publicationYear>
<subjects>
<subject>D8</subject>
<subject>upslope area</subject>
<subject>digital elevation model</subject>
<subject>DEM</subject>
<subject>parallel computing</subject>
<subject>algorithm</subject>
<subject>flow accumulation</subject>
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<dates>
<date dateType="Issued">2011-07-21</date>
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<language>en</language>
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<rights rightsURI="info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess">Open Access</rights>
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<description descriptionType="Abstract">&lt;p&gt;This paper presents a parallel algorithm for calculating the eight-directional (D8) up-slope contributing area in digital elevation models (DEMs). In contrast with previous algorithms, which have potentially unbounded inter-node communications, the algorithm presented here realizes strict bounds on the number of inter-node communications. Those bounds in turn allow D8 attributes to be processed for arbitrarily large DEMs on hardware ranging from average desktops to supercomputers. The algorithm can use the OpenMP and MPI parallel computing models, either in combination or separately. It partitions the DEM between slave nodes, calculates an internal up-slope area by replacing information from other slaves with variables representing unknown quantities, passes the results on to a master node which combines all the slaves&amp;#39; data, and passes information back to each slave, which then computes its final result. In this way each slave&amp;#39;s DEM partition is treated as a simple unit in the DEM as a whole and only two communications take place per node.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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