Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#1740 closed enhancement (fixed)

r.watershed: multiple outlets points at once for watershed delineation

Reported by: hzambran Owned by: grass-dev@…
Priority: normal Milestone: 7.0.0
Component: LibRaster Version: unspecified
Keywords: r.watershed, consider Cc:
CPU: Unspecified Platform: All

Description

I consider the 'r.watershed' a very efficient function for watershed delineation, in particular after the changes introduced in Grass7 (http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2012-April/064500.html). However, there is a feature that I'm missing in order to start using it as a replacement of similar functionality available in TauDem5 (http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/):

The possibility of providing, in addition to the DEM file, an optional shapefile with the known locations of the desired outlet point(s), in order to be able to define the watersheds not only by using a threshold for the upstream area, but also by using the location of all the outlet points present in the main study area.

It would be great if you could consider implementing such a feature for the official release of Grass7.

This feature should be able to:

-) move all the outlet points provided by the user to nearest cell belonging to the river network. -) apply the current 'r.watershed' to each one of the outlets points obtained in the previous step.

Thanks in advance for considering this.

Mauricio Zambrano-Bigiarini

PS, More info about how TauDem5 perform this on: http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/TauDEM5DelineatingASingleWatershed.pdf

Change History (1)

in reply to:  description comment:1 by mmetz, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Replying to hzambran:

[...] there is a feature that I'm missing in order to start using it as a replacement of similar functionality available in TauDem5 (http://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5.0/):

The possibility of providing, in addition to the DEM file, an optional shapefile with the known locations of the desired outlet point(s), in order to be able to define the watersheds not only by using a threshold for the upstream area, but also by using the location of all the outlet points present in the main study area.

It would be great if you could consider implementing such a feature for the official release of Grass7.

This feature should be able to:

-) move all the outlet points provided by the user to nearest cell belonging to the river network.

-) apply the current 'r.watershed' to each one of the outlets points obtained in the previous step.

The addon module r.stream.basins already defines the catchment areas for one or more outlets, using the output of r.watershed. You could then set a MASK for each catchment and do further processing with the r.stream.* modules. BTW, you can also use the output of TauDem (DEM + flow accumulation) as input for r.stream.extract and then continue with other r.stream.* modules.

Markus M

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