A watershed average slope value is often needed in some hydrologic calculations, for example, Time of Concentration (TOC) estimation using NRCS Lag Time Method. The slope tool in AcrGIS or…
A watershed average slope value is often needed in some hydrologic calculations, for example, Time of Concentration (TOC) estimation using NRCS Lag Time Method. The slope tool in AcrGIS or…
TauDEM, developed by Utah State University is a set of tools to extract and analyze hydrologic information from topography as represented by a DEM. TauDEM is a set of standalone command…
In addition to delineating watersheds (drainage basins) upstream of one or more outlet points using WhiteboxTools' Watershed and UnnestBasins tools as illustrated in this post, WhiteboxTools has three other tools…
Update: SAGA tools used to be included with QGIS installation, but starting from QGIS version 3.3x, QGIS dropped SATA package from its installation package. Now to use SAGA tools, QGIS…
Time of concentration (TOC) is an important hydrology parameter which represents the time required for surface runoff to travel from the most hydraulically remote point (normally divide or ridge) in…
Whitebox Tools (WBT) is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform developed by Whitebox Geospatial, Inc. WBT contains plenty of tools to process various types of geospatial data for H&H analysis. WBT can…
After a watershed has been delineated using HEC-HMS GIS tools, the subbasins and reaches can be further refined using HEC-HMS merge and split functions. Five subbasins and two reaches were…
The new HEC-HMS published around 2020 has some useful GIS tools to delineate a watershed using terrain data. Unlike HEC-GeoHMS, these standalone GIS commands are an integral part of HEC-HMS…
The USGS National Hydrography Dataset (NHD) represents the water drainage network of the United States with features such as rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, coastline, dams, and stream gages. The…
TauDEM, developed by Utah State University is a set of tools to extract and analyze hydrologic information from topography as represented by a DEM. TauDEM is a set of standalone command…