Publications
Yıldırım, A. A., D. Watson, D. Tarboton and R. M. Wallace, (2015), "A virtual tile approach to raster-based calculations of large digital elevation models in a shared-memory system," Computers & Geosciences, 82: 78-88, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2015.05.014. [Author PDF 558K]
Youn, C., V. Nandigam, M. Phan, D. Tarboton, N. Wilkins-Diehr, C. Baru, C. Crosby, A. Padmanabhan and S. Wang, (2014), "Leveraging XSEDE HPC resources to address computational challenges with high-resolution topography data," Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 13-18, ACM, Extended Abstract, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2616498.2616564. [PDF 700K]
Fan, Y., Y. Liu, S. Wang, D. Tarboton, A. Yildirim and N. Wilkins-Diehr, (2014), "Accelerating TauDEM as a Scalable Hydrological Terrain Analysis Service on XSEDE," Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, Atlanta, GA, USA, July 13-18, ACM, Extended Abstract, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2616498.2616510. [PDF 200K]
Tesfa, T. K., D. G. Tarboton, D. W. Watson, K. A. T. Schreuders, M. E. Baker and R. M. Wallace, (2011), "Extraction of hydrological proximity measures from DEMs using parallel processing," Environmental Modelling & Software, 26(12): 1696-1709, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2011.07.018. [PDF 2.3 MB]
Tesfa, T., (2010), "Distributed Hydrological Modeling Using Soil Depth Estimated from Landscape Variables Derived with Enhanced Terrain Analysis," Ph.D. Thesis, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Utah State University, http://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/616/, 222 pp.
Wallace, R. M., D. G. Tarboton, D. W. Watson, K. A. T. Schreuders and T. K. Tesfa, (2010), "Parallel Algorithms for Processing Hydrologic Properties from Digital Terrain," GIScience 2010, Sixth international conference on Geographic Information Science, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, Extended abstract, http://www.giscience2010.org/pdfs/paper_229.pdf.
Tarboton, D. G., K. A. T. Schreuders, D. W. Watson and M. E. Baker, (2009), "Generalized terrain-based flow analysis of digital elevation models," 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, ed. R. S. Anderssen, R. D. Braddock and L. T. H. Newham, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, p.2000-2006, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/F4/tarboton_F4.pdf.
Wallis, C., R. Wallace, D. G. Tarboton, D. W. Watson, K. A. T. Schreuders and T. K. Tesfa, (2009), "Hydrologic Terrain Processing Using Parallel Computing," 18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM09 International Congress on Modelling and Simulation, ed. R. S. Anderssen, R. D. Braddock and L. T. H. Newham, Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand and International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, July 2009, p.2540-2545, http://www.mssanz.org.au/modsim09/F13/wallis.pdf.
Wallis, C., D. Watson, D. G. Tarboton and R. Wallace, (2009), "Parallel Flow-Direction and Contributing Area Calculation for Hydrology Analysis in Digital Elevation Models," PDPTA'09, The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 13-16. [PDF 669K]
Tarboton, D. G. and M. E. Baker, (2008), "Towards an Algebra for Terrain-Based Flow Analysis," in Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment: Innovations in GIS 13, Edited by N. J. Mount, G. L. Harvey, P. Aplin and G. Priestnall, CRC Press, Florida. [PDF 1285 K]
Tarboton, D. G., (2003), "Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models in Hydrology," 23rd ESRI International Users Conference, San Diego, California, July 7-11. [Powerpoint (6MB), PDF (1.3 MB)]
Tarboton, D. G. and D. P. Ames, (2001),"Advances in the mapping of flow networks from digital elevation data," in World Water and Environmental Resources Congress, Orlando, Florida, May 20-24, ASCE. [PDF (0.5MB)]
Tarboton, D. G., (1997), "A New Method for the Determination of Flow Directions and Contributing Areas in Grid Digital Elevation Models," Water Resources Research, 33(2): 309-319. [PDF (9.1MB)]
Tarboton, D. G., R. L. Bras and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, (1992), "A Physical Basis for Drainage Density," Geomorphology, 5(1/2): 59-76. [PDF (3.2 MB)]
Tarboton, D. G., R. L. Bras and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, (1991), "On the Extraction of Channel Networks from Digital Elevation Data," Hydrologic Processes, 5(1): 81-100. [PDF (1 MB)]
Tarboton, D. G., (1989), "The analysis of river basins and channel networks using digital terrain data," Sc.D. Thesis, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, (Also available as Tarboton D. G., R. L. Bras and I. Rodriguez-Iturbe, (Same title), Technical report no 326, Ralph M. Parsons Laboratory for Water resources and Hydrodynamics, Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T., September 1989).
