Delineating Basin Boundaries

using ArcHydro and NHDPlus

GIS Workshop 2007

Paul McKee
West Gulf River Forecast Center
 Overview

Background
Objectives and Strategy
Status to date
Discussionideas?

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
 Background
IHABBS
Developed by NOHRSC
Uses 500m DEM
No longer supported; static
application
ArcHydro supported ArcGIS tool
set for hydrologic modeling
NHDPlus- integrated suite of
geospatial data sets
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
ArcHydro
-developed by Dr. Maidment

http://www.crwr.utexas.edu/giswr/
 NHDPlus
-National Hydrography Dataset

Flow direction grids

Flow accumulation grids
Elevation grids

http://www.horizon-systems.com/nhdplus/index.php
 Objective and Strategy
Use ArcHydro tools and NHDPlus
data sets to develop procedures
to delineate basin boundaries
and format output for OFS input
Potentially replace IHABBS
Supported and widely used

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
 Status to date
NHDPlus data sets downloaded (2.8GB)
ArcHydro installed (some troubleshooting)
Tutorial helpful
Generated additional grids needed for delineation
processing (str, cat)
Successful test batch run to delineate 15 basins
Compared with IHABBS basins non-contributing
areas?

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
Upper Brazos River Basin
Test batch run 15 basins
AMTT2- Double Mountain Fork
Brazos River near Aspermont
 IHABBS

ArcHydro
ArcHydro

IHABBS
Converted polygon to points
 Generalize points?

Point for every 30m grid cell

 More detail
Can build batchpoint table using IHABBS
outlet file

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
 Discussion ideas?
How to convert and generalize
polygon features representing
multiple delineated basins to points
while maintaining polygon topology
(ie. Coincident points along shared
boundaries)?
Prepare for OFS input (ie. ppinit
define-basin)

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/wgrfc
Questions?
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