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20152020
most citedPriority-Flood: An Optimal Depression-Filling and Watershed-Labeling Algorithm for Digital Elevation Models

277 citations · 511 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.LG2020★ 27 cited

BusTr: Predicting Bus Travel Times from Real-Time Traffic

Richard Barnes, Senaka Buthpitiya, James Cook +3

We present BusTr, a machine-learned model for translating road traffic forecasts into predictions of bus delays, used by Google Maps to serve the majority of the world's public tra…

cs.CE2018★ 21 cited

Accelerating a fluvial incision and landscape evolution model with parallelism

Richard Barnes

Solving inverse problems and achieving statistical rigour in landscape evolution models requires running many model realizations. Parallel computation is necessary to achieve this…

cs.DC2016★ 43 cited

Parallel Non-divergent Flow Accumulation For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters

Richard Barnes

Continent-scale datasets challenge hydrological algorithms for processing digital elevation models. Flow accumulation is an important input for many such algorithms; here, I parall…

cs.DC2016★ 52 cited

Parallel Priority-Flood Depression Filling For Trillion Cell Digital Elevation Models On Desktops Or Clusters

Richard Barnes

Algorithms for extracting hydrologic features and properties from digital elevation models (DEMs) are challenged by large datasets, which often cannot fit within a computer's RAM.…

cs.DC2016★ 1 cited

Distributed Parallel D8 Up-Slope Area Calculation in Digital Elevation Models

Richard Barnes, Clarence Lehman, David Mulla

This paper presents a parallel algorithm for calculating the eight-directional (D8) up-slope contributing area in digital elevation models (DEMs). In contrast with previous algorit…

q-bio.PE2015★ 8 cited

Modeling of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in a Two-Species Feedback Loop

Richard Barnes, Clarence Lehman

Bovine spongiform encephalopathy, otherwise known as mad cow disease, can spread when an individual cow consumes feed containing the infected tissues of another individual, forming…