Acta Geodaetica et Cartographica Sinica ›› 2016, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (4): 494-501.doi: 10.11947/j.AGCS.2016.20150288

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Line Simplification of Three-dimensional Drainage Considering Topological Consistency

LIU Minshi1,2,3,4,5, LONG Yi1,2,3, FEI Lifan4,5   

  1. 1. School of Geography Science, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China;
    2. Key Laboratory of Virtual Geographic Environment of Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210023, China;
    3. Jiangsu Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Resource Development and Application, Nanjing 210023, China;
    4. School of Geographic Information and Tourism, Chuzhou University, Chuzhou 239000, China;
    5. Anhui Center for Collaborative Innovation in Geographical Information Integration and Application, Chuzhou 239000, ChinaAbstract
  • Received:2015-06-01 Revised:2016-01-06 Online:2016-04-20 Published:2016-04-28
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.41171350;41301514;41501496);The Cultivation Projiect of Chuzhou University(No.2014PY03)

Abstract: In view of the fact that drainage line simplification using conversional methods is usually hard to keep the three-dimensional characteristics and topological relationships, this paper proposes a new method of three-dimensional drainage line simplification which maintains topological consistency. It firstly expends the conversional D-P algorithm to three-dimensional in order to keep three-dimensional characteristics during the simplification. Then it constructs tree structures for drainage lines to express their topological relations. Finally, it simplifies river lines and reconstructs topological relations of main streams and their branches according to the hierarchical order of water system tree. The experimental results show that this method has a higher accuracy in simplification and can maintain not only three-dimensional shape characteristics of water system but also the topological consistency at river confluences.

Key words: D-P algorithm, topological relationship, three-dimensional line simplification, water system simplification

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