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Digital Elevation Model Based Watershed and Stream Network Delineation
Conceptual Basis Eight direction pour point model (D8) Flow accumulation Pit removal and DEM reconditioning Stream delineation Catchment and watershed delineation Geomorphology, topographic texture and
drainage density Generalized and objective stream network
delineation
Reading – Arc Hydro Chapter 4
Conceptual Basis
Based on an information model for the topographic representation of downslope flow derived from a DEM
Enriches the information content of digital elevation data. Sink removal Flow field derivation Calculating of flow based derivative
surfaces
Duality between Terrain and Drainage Network
• Flowing water erodes landscape and carries away sediment sculpting the topography
• Topography defines drainage direction on the landscape and resultant runoff and streamflow accumulation processes
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Watershed divide
Drainage direction Outlet
1:24,000 scale map of a study area in West Austin
Topography defines watersheds which are fundamentally the most basic hydrologic
landscape elements.
DEM Elevations
Contours
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Slope:
Hydrologic Slope - Direction of Steepest Descent
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Eight Direction Pour Point Model
ESRI Direction encoding
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Flow Direction Grid
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Grid Network
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Flow Accumulation Grid. Area draining in to a grid cell
Link to Grid calculator
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Stream Network for 10 cell Threshold
Drainage Area
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The area draining each grid cell includes the grid cell itself.
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TauDEM contributing area convention.
Streams with 200 cell Threshold(>18 hectares or 13.5 acres drainage area)
Watershed Draining to Outlet
Watershed and Drainage Paths Delineated from 30m DEM
Automated method is more consistent than hand delineation
The Pit Removal Problem
• DEM creation results in artificial pits in the landscape
• A pit is a set of one or more cells which has no downstream cells around it
• Unless these pits are removed they become sinks and isolate portions of the watershed
• Pit removal is first thing done with a DEM
Increase elevation to the pour point elevation until the pit drains to a neighbor
Pit Filling
Parallel Approach• Improved runtime
efficiency• Capability to run larger
problems• Row oriented slices• Each process includes
one buffer row on either side
• Each process does not change buffer row
Pit Removal: Planchon Fill Algorithm
Initialization 1st Pass 2nd Pass
Planchon, O., and F. Darboux (2001), A fast, simple and versatile algorithm to fill the depressions of digital elevation models, Catena(46), 159-176.
Parallel Scheme
Com
municate
Initialize( D,P)Do
for all i in Pif D(i) > n P(i) ← D(i)Else P(i) ← n
endforSend( topRow, rank-1 )Send( bottomRow, rank+1 )Recv( rowBelow, rank+1 )Recv( rowAbove, rank-1 )
Until P is not modified
D denotes the original elevation. P denotes the pit filled elevation. n denotes lowest neighboring elevationi denotes the cell being evaluated
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Parallel pit fill timing for large DEMNedB (14849 x 27174)
Dual Quad Core Xeon Proc E5405, 2.00GHz
Compute
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Lower elevation of neighbor along a predefined drainage path until the pit drains to the outlet point
Carving
Filling
CarvingMinimizing Alterations
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Take a mapped stream network and a DEM Make a grid of the streams Raise the off-stream DEM cells by an arbitrary elevation increment Produces "burned in" DEM streams = mapped streams
“Burning In” the Streams
AGREE Elevation Grid Modification Methodology – DEM Reconditioning
ORIGINAL ELEVATIONMODIFIED ELEVATION
KNOWN STREAM LOCATIONAND STREAM DELINEATEDFROM MODIFIED ELEVATION
GRID CELL SIZESECTION A-A
STREAM DELINEATEDFROM ORIGINAL ELEVATION
ELEVATIONRESOLUTION
GRIDCELL SIZE
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Stream Segments
Vectorized Streams Linked Using Grid Code to Cell Equivalents
VectorStreams
GridStreams
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DrainageLines are drawn through the centers of cells on the stream links. DrainagePoints are located at the
centers of the outlet cells of the catchments
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Catchments
• For every stream segment, there is a corresponding catchment
• Catchments are a tessellation of the landscape through a set of physical rules
Raster Zones and Vector Polygons
Catchment GridID
Vector Polygons
DEM GridCode
Raster Zones
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One to one connection
Catchments, DrainageLines and DrainagePoints of the San Marcos basin
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Adjoint catchment: the remaining upstream area draining to a catchment outlet.
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Catchment, Watershed, Subwatershed.
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Watershed outlet points may lie within the interior of a catchment, e.g. at a USGS stream-gaging site.
Catchments
Subwatersheds
Watershed
Summary of Key Processing Steps
• [DEM Reconditioning]• Pit Removal (Fill Sinks)• Flow Direction• Flow Accumulation• Stream Definition• Stream Segmentation• Catchment Grid Delineation• Raster to Vector Conversion (Catchment Polygon,
Drainage Line, Catchment Outlet Points)
Arc Hydro Tools
• Distributed free of charge from ESRI Water Resources Applications
• Version 1.3 Latest release http://support.esri.com/index.cfm?fa=downloads.dataModels.filteredGateway&dmid=15
• Start with a DEM• Produce a set of DEM-derived raster products• Convert these to vector (point, line, area)
features• Add and link Arc Hydro attributes• Compute catchment characteristics
Delineation of Channel Networks and Catchments
500 cell theshold
1000 cell theshold
How to decide on stream delineation threshold ?
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Drainage Area Threshold (m2)
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Mawheraiti
Gold Creek
Choconut and Tracy Creeks
Drainage density (total channel length divided by drainage area) as a function of drainage area support threshold used to define channels for the three study watersheds.
Dd = 760 A-0.507
Why is it important?
Hydrologic processes are different on hillslopes and in channels. It is important to recognize this and account for this in models.
Drainage area can be concentrated or dispersed (specific catchment area) representing concentrated or dispersed flow.
Examples of differently textured topography
Badlands in Death Valley.from Easterbrook, 1993, p 140.
Coos Bay, Oregon Coast Range. from W. E. Dietrich
Logged Pacific Redwood Forest near Humboldt, California
Canyon Creek, Trinity Alps, Northern California.
Photo D K Hagans
Gently Sloping Convex Landscape
From W. E. Dietrich
Mancos Shale badlands, Utah. From Howard, 1994.
0 1 Kilometers 0 1 KilometersDriftwood, PA Sunland, CA
Topographic Texture and Drainage DensitySame scale, 20 m contour interval
Sunland, CADriftwood, PA
Lets look at some geomorphology.• Drainage Density• Horton’s Laws• Slope – Area scaling• Stream Drops
“landscape dissection into distinct valleys is limited by a threshold of channelization that sets a finite scale to the landscape.” (Montgomery and Dietrich, 1992, Science, vol. 255 p. 826.)
Suggestion: One contributing area threshold does not fit all watersheds.
Drainage Density• Dd = L/A
• Hillslope length 1/2Dd
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Hillslope length = B
A = 2B L
Dd = L/A = 1/2B
B= 1/2Dd
Drainage Density for Different Support Area Thresholds
EPA Reach Files 100 grid cell threshold 1000 grid cell threshold
Drainage Density Versus Contributing Area Threshold
Support Area km^2
Dd
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Hortons Laws: Strahler system for stream ordering
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Bifurcation Ratio
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Area Ratio
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Length Ratio
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Slope Ratio
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Constant Stream Drops Law
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Broscoe, A. J., (1959), "Quantitative analysis of longitudinal stream profiles of small watersheds," Office of Naval Research, Project NR 389-042, Technical Report No. 18, Department of Geology, Columbia University, New York.
Stream DropElevation difference between ends of stream
Note that a “Strahler stream” comprises a sequence of links (reaches or segments) of the same order
NodesLinks
Single Stream
Suggestion: Map channel networks from the DEM at the finest resolution consistent with observed channel
network geomorphology ‘laws’.
• Look for statistically significant break in constant stream drop property as stream delineation threshold is reduced
• Break in slope versus contributing area relationship
• Physical basis in the form instability theory of Smith and Bretherton (1972), see Tarboton et al. 1992
Statistical Analysis of Stream Drops
Elevation Drop for Streams
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T-Test for Difference in Mean Values
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Order 1 Order 2-4Mean X 72.2 Mean Y 130.3Std X 68.8 Std Y 120.8Var X 4740.0 Var Y 14594.5Nx 268 Ny 81
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T-test checks whether difference in means is large (> 2)when compared to the spread of the data around the mean values
Constant Support Area Threshold
Strahler Stream Order
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Support Area threshold (30 m grid cells)
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Drainage Density (km-1) 3.3 2.3 1.7 1.4 1.2
t statistic for difference between lowest order and higher order drops
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100 grid cell constant support area threshold stream delineation
1 0 1 KilometersConstant support area threshold100 grid cell9 x 10E4 m^2
200 grid cell constant support area based stream delineation
1 0 1 Kilometersconstant support area threshold200 grid cell18 x 10E4 m^2
Local Curvature Computation(Peuker and Douglas, 1975, Comput. Graphics Image Proc. 4:375)
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Contributing area of upwards curved grid cells only
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Upward Curved Contributing Area Threshold
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Upward curved support area threshold (30 m grid cells)
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Drainage Density (km-1) 2.2 1.8 1.6 1.4
t statistic for difference between lowest order and higher order drops
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1 0 1 KilometersCurvature basedStream delineation
Curvature based stream delineation
Channel network delineation, other options
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Grid Order
1 0 1 Kilometers Grid networkpruned to 4thorder
Grid network pruned to order 4 stream delineation
Slope area threshold (Montgomery and Dietrich, 1992).
TauDEM - Channel Network and Watershed TauDEM - Channel Network and Watershed Delineation SoftwareDelineation Software • Pit removal (standard flooding approach)
• Flow directions and slope – D8 (standard)– D (Tarboton, 1997, WRR
33(2):309)– Flat routing (Garbrecht and Martz,
1997, JOH 193:204)• Drainage area (D8 and D)• Network and watershed delineation
– Support area threshold/channel maintenance coefficient (Standard)
– Combined area-slope threshold (Montgomery and Dietrich, 1992, Science, 255:826)
– Local curvature based (using Peuker and Douglas, 1975, Comput. Graphics Image Proc. 4:375)
• Threshold/drainage density selection by stream drop analysis (Tarboton et al., 1991, Hyd. Proc. 5(1):81)
• Other Functions: Downslope Influence, Upslope Dependence, Wetness index, distance to streams, Transport limited accumulation
Available from http://www.engineering.usu.edu/dtarb/
Summary Concepts• The eight direction pour point model
approximates the surface flow using eight discrete grid directions
• The elevation surface represented by a grid digital elevation model is used to derive surfaces representing other hydrologic variables of interest such as– Slope– Flow direction– Drainage area– Catchments, watersheds and channel networks
Summary Concepts (2)• Hydrologic processes are different between
hillslopes and channels• Drainage density defines the average spacing
between streams and the representative length of hillslopes
• The constant drop property provides a basis for selecting channel delineation criteria to preserve the natural drainage density of the topography
• Generalized channel delineation criteria can represent spatial variability in the topographic texture and drainage density
Are there any questions ?
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