DEM (digital elevation model) is the abbreviation of digital elevation model, which is an important original data for watershed terrain and feature recognition. The principle of DEM is to divide the watershed into M rows and N columns of quadrilateral (cell), calculate the average elevation of each quadrilateral, and then store the elevation in a two-dimensional matrix. Because DEM data can reflect the local terrain features of a certain resolution, a large amount of surface morphology information can be extracted by DEM, which includes the slope, slope direction and the relationship between cells of watershed grid unit [7]. At the same time, the surface water flow path, river network and watershed boundary can be determined by certain algorithm. Therefore, to extract basin features from DEM, a good basin structure model is the premise and key of the design algorithm.

File naming and required software

File name: the data is stored in vector SHP format. The file name is "250,000 topographic map of the middle reaches of heihe main stream. SHP".
Data reading: Arcgis, Qgis and other remote sensing software can be used to open and read.

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Xu, Z., Hu, L., Xu, M. (2016). 1:250000 DEM map of the middle reaches of Heihe River (2005-2007). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Geogra.tpdc.270815. CSTR: 18406.11.Geogra.tpdc.270815. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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