Effects of Spatial Resolution on Topographic Representations and Drainage Networks Derived from LiDAR Digital Terrain Model

Rafael Carneiro De Souza Barros; Adriano Rolim da Paz

doi:10.26848/rbgf.v17.5.p3794-3808

Authors

Rafael Carneiro De Souza Barros Universidade Federal da Paraíba https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3214-2292
Adriano Rolim da Paz Universidade Federal da Paraíba https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0243-7006

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26848/rbgf.v17.5.p3794-3808

Keywords:

Resampling; Computational cost; Digital elevation model.

Abstract

Digital Terrain Models (DTM) derived from LiDAR technology are increasingly available. However, working with these DTMs causes high computational costs and requires high-performance equipment, which may even make the use of these models unfeasible. The objective of this work is to evaluate the effects caused by changing spatial resolution in topographic representations and drainage networks extracted from LiDAR-DTM. For this, three resampling techniques were applied, mean aggregation, bilinear interpolation and nearest neighbor interpolation, to coarse a 1 m spatial resolution LiDAR-DTM in multiple resolutions (2, 10, 30 and 100 m). A sub-basin (550 km²) of the Sirinhaem River basin was taken as the case study area. The results show that there was no significant difference between the resampling techniques, but between the spatial resolutions, varying according to the applied metric. The spatial resolution of 2 m is more suitable in case of the need for a coarser resolution.

Author Biographies

Rafael Carneiro De Souza Barros, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Mestre em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental pelo Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental (PPGECAM) ofertado pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB) e Engenheiro Ambiental de formação graduado pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB).

Adriano Rolim da Paz, Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Professor Associado do Departamento de Engenharia Civil e Ambiental, da Universidade Federal da Paraíba (Campus I - João Pessoa), desde set/2010, onde atua também como Pesquisador e Orientador de Doutorado, Mestrado e Iniciação Científica. Foi Coordenador do Curso de Graduação em Engenharia Ambiental da UFPB de 2014 a 2017 e atualmente membro do Núcleo Docente Estruturante, atuando na reformulação do Projeto Pedagógico do Curso segundo as novas Diretrizes Curriculares Nacionais. É membro permanente do corpo docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia Civil e Ambiental da UFPB, onde atua também como membro da Comissão de Autoavaliação, e revisor de periódicos internacionais e nacionais, atuando ainda como consultor ad hoc para agências de fomento nacionais e estaduais. Idealizador e atualmente coordenador do Laboratório de Análises Computacionais em Meio Ambiente da UFPB (LACMA). Tem Doutorado (2010) e Mestrado (2003) em Recursos Hídricos e Saneamento Ambiental pelo IPH-UFRGS (Porto Alegre/RS) e Graduação em Engenharia Civil pela UFPB (2001). As principais áreas de atuação são: modelagem hidrológica de grandes e pequenas bacias, modelagem hidráulica de rios e planícies de inundação, geoprocessamento, drenagem urbana sustentável e monitoramento ambiental via sensoriamento remoto orbital. Destaca-se atuação voltada ao avanço do estado da arte com o desenvolvimento ou melhoria de métodos e algoritmos computacionais, como o modelo hidrodinâmico-hidrológico de simulação de rios e planícies SIRIPLAN, o modelo hidrológico distribuído por pixels Hidropixel e diversas rotinas de processamento de Modelo Digital de Elevação, que tem sido usadas por outros pesquisadores nacionais e internacionais

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