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The Black Top Hat function applied to a DEM: A tool to estimate recent incision in a mountainous watershed (Estibère Watershed, Central Pyrenees)
Rodriguez F., Maire E., Courjault-Radé P., Darrozes J.
Geophysical Research Letters 29 (2002) 9-1 - http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00590653
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The Black Top Hat function applied to a DEM: A tool to estimate recent incision in a mountainous watershed (Estibère Watershed, Central Pyrenees)
Felipe Rodriguez, Eric Maire 1, Pierre Courjault-Radé 2, José Darrozes 2
1 :  Matériaux, ingénierie et sciences (MATEIS)
http://www.insa-lyon.fr/mateis/
CNRS : UMR5510 – Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) - Lyon
Bâtiment Blaise Pascal 7, avenue Jean Capelle 69621 VILLEURBANNE CEDEX
France
2 :  Laboratoire des Mécanismes et Transfert en Géologie (LMTG)
http://www.lmtg.obs-mip.fr/
CNRS : UMR5563 – Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées – Université Paul Sabatier [UPS] - Toulouse III – Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR154
14 avenue Edouard Belin 31400 Toulouse
France
The Top Hat Transform function is a grey-level image analysis tool that allows extracting peaks and valleys in a non-uniform background. This function can be applied onto a grey-level Digital Elevation Model (DEM). It is herein applied to quantify the volume of recent incised material in a mountainous Pyrenean watershed. Grey-level Closing operation applied to the Present-Day DEM gives a new image called ''paleo'' DEM. The Black Top Hat function consists in the subtraction of the ''paleo'' DEM with the Present-Day DEM. It gives a new DEM representing all valleys whose sizes range between the size of the structuring element and the null value as no threshold is used. The calculation of the incised volume is directly derived from the subtraction between the two DEM's. The geological significance of the quantitative results is discussed.
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Geophysical Research Letters (Geophys. Res. Lett.)
Publisher American Geophysical Union (AGU)
ISSN 0094-8276 
internationale
03/2002
29
9-1

Hydrology: Erosion and sedimentation – Hydrology: Geomorphology (1625) – Mathematical Geophysics: General or miscellaneous