Fig. 3. Flow direction on a DEM

Figure 3. An example DEM showing the flow direction from the central cell calculated as the direction of the steepest slope. Note that the elevation difference is greatest toward NW direction in this example. However, the steepest direction is N because the distance is longer in the diagonal direction than the cardinal direction.

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