Introduction: Valley network systems on Mars remain the most unequivocal evidence that water carved the surface of the planet in the distant past and the climate was different than today. Most of these systems date from the Noachian [1], the p eriod of heavy bombardment which is >3.7 Ga [2], although local or regional formation seems to have continued to more recent times [3]. The discovery of ...

We present an algorithmic classification of drainage networks on Mars. Altogether, 368 drainage networks were computationally extracted using MOLA topographical data from various martian locations covering 16 major geological units. The classification is quantitative and objective, as it is based on a numerical description of drainage networks. Applying a clustering algorithm to our dataset, we...

[1] Geomorphic mapping of a 1 million square kilometer section of Terra Cimmeria on Mars (1:1M scale) indicates that prolonged, intense fluvial erosion occurred during the period of heavy bombardment. Crater counts date the termination of ubiquitous, intense erosion to the late Noachian, although some valleys may have continued downcutting into the early Hesperian. Stratigraphic and topographic...

The drainage networks of catchment areas burned by wildfire were analysed at several scales. The smallest scale (1–1000 m) representative of hillslopes, and the small scale (1000 m to 1 km), representative of small catchments, were characterized by the analysis of field measurements. The large scale (1–1000 km), representative of perennial stream networks, was derived from a 30-m digital elevat...

This paper concentrates on the flow properties when one fluid displaces another fluid in a two-dimensional (2D) network of pores and throats. We consider the scale where individual pores enter the description and we use a network model to simulate the displacement process. We study the interplay between the pressure build up in the fluids and the displacement structure in drainage. We find that...

[1] This paper assesses the extent to which a topographically defined description of the spatial arrangement of catchment wetness can be used to represent landscape hydrological connectivity in temperate river catchments. A physically based distributed hydrological model is used to characterize the space-time patterns of surface overland flow connection to the drainage network. These characteri...

The drainage pattern of a river network is the arrangement in which a stream erodes the channels of its network of tributaries. It can reflect the geographical characteristics of a river network to a certain extent, because it depends on the topography and geology of the land. Whether in cartography or GIS, hydrography is one of the most important feature classes to generalise in order to produ...

[1] In this article, a method for drainage network extraction from high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs; e.g., those derived from airborne laser swath mapping) is presented, which requires just two user-defined parameters and is capable of handling discontinuous valley networks. The accuracy and robustness of the method are illustrated using synthetic valley networks that mimic the co...

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Abstract. Hydrological systems of glaciers have a direct impact on the glacier dynamics. Since 1950s, geophysical studies provided insights into these hydrological systems. Unfortunately, such were predominantly conducted using 2D acquisitions along few profiles, thus failing to provide spatially unaliased 3D images englacial and subglacial water pathways. The latter has likely resulted in flaw...