Questions tagged [flow-direction]
In hydrological modelling, flow direction shows the side the flow goes towards. Flow direction is used in spatial analysis to generate a drainage network by generating flow accumulation.
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Setting boundary condition for urban catchment flow direction operation
I am trying to delineate individual catchments for a large number of kerb inlet pits from a LiDAR DEM using open source tools (QGIS, WhiteBox).
In areas where the LiDAR has sampled verge elevations to ...
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New flow direction attribute for sub-catchment layer in QGIS
I have a polygon layer in QGIS with self-created sub-catchments. I also have a DEM, a flow-direction raster and a raster with the corresponding stream network and stream order. I would like to create ...
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Channel network from DEM of a river has unusual linear lines
So I needed to obtain channel network, basins, flow direction, etc. I downloaded aster_DEM from usgs, clipped it to an extent, warped it to UTM projection, then filled the sinks using Wang and Liu ...
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QGIS: determining the ice divide on a small ice cap
I have a GeoTIFF file with the surface elevation of a small ice cap. The ice cap has an ice divide, where the ice diverges. Part of it flows towards a glacier in the north, the other part flows ...
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Running grass7:r.watershed in QGIS gives different results to running identical process in QGIS
a former colleague created a QGIS tool in Python for the Team which creates Flow Routes and TWI (Topographic Wetness Indicator) maps for a selected location.
I have run through the code and copied the ...
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Exporting ldd raster from grass to PCRaster fails
I successfully exported Float32 SCALAR data with
r.out.gdal input=$file output=$file.map format=PCRaster type=Float32 createopt="PCRASTER_VALUESCALE=VS_SCALAR"
but for ldd data (previously ...
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How to measure the distance between two points in the same layer accounting for stream meandering in ArcGIS Pro
I am trying to measure the distance (in meters) between points that are in the same layer and I would like to account for the distance of meanders in the stream if possible. I was able to calculate ...
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Flow direction outputs (ArcGIS Pro: Hydrology Tools) returning 255 values rather than 8 (D8 settings)
I am working with 10-meter resolution digital elevation models to produce flow direction raster images to be used ultimately for the watershed tool in ArcGIS Pro. When I use one DEM at a time, things ...
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Measure flowpath length from a point
I am using QGIS 3.28.2-Firenze. I have am using WBT "tracedownslopeflowpaths" to establish flowpath from a 3D scalar point (numbered points in image). How do I set a measured distance (1320 ...
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Flow Direction tool outputs strange raster that doesn't work with subsequent hydrology tools
My main goal here is to end up with a shapefile that simply defines the ridgeline in a given area. I followed the directions at How To: Identify ridgelines from a DEM and am having some trouble. ...
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Tool for modelling uniform groundwater flow from points and isopotential lines (elevation contours) - QGIS
I am going to investigate where a specific particle in a groundwater system will be found in 10 years.
I have the following data:
A vector point layer with x and y coordinates of points I want to ...
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Adjusting flow direction of river based on DEM in QGIS
I have a huge vector layer as a line, that represents the river. The problem is that the flow direction is sometimes wrong (goes uphill). But I can't correct that manually, cause the layer is too big.
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Working with the FlowDir in the national hydography dataset
In the National Hydrography Dataset there's a FlowDir field.
According to https://www.townofnewipswich.org/sites/g/files/vyhlif4766/f/uploads/dataset_dictionary.pdf the two possible values for FlowDir ...
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-32768 in flow direction values of Grass GIS
I was checking the values of a flow direction tiff created with Grass GIS and the values were:
-32768, -4, -3, -2, -1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
This answer explains clearly the meaning of the values ...
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Flow Direction flowing opposite to actual direction
I am using ArcMap 10.7.1.
I am trying to delineate multiple urban watersheds in GIS for the City of Denver (sometimes called sewersheds) using Spatial Analyst. I am looking at several drainage points ...
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Display line with color gradient (or fade effect) based on the value of the vertices it connects
I have two vertices connected by two lines (we can assume way out and way back from point A to point B). In the picture I represented the lines with two arrows curved by adding a midpoint and its ...
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How to determine North-facing, south, east and west forest edges in QGIS
I am using QGIS.
I have a shapefile with 41 polygons representing forest patches. I want to assess the effect the forest edge direction has on vegetation within the forest patches. I have defined ...
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Why some flow direction cell of GRASS r.watershed have no data value?
Using r.watershed inside QGIS, I am getting no data value along some streams for flow direction.
I tried the r.fill.dir and for the same raster it does not give any no data value for the same cells (...
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Preventing diagonal flow direction in ArcGIS Desktop
I would like to prevent diagonal flow direction/accumulation, as it leads to frequent "river shortcuts". As shown on the picture, instead of following the river in blue, because of the ...
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Incorrect creation of flow direction raster from interpolated DTM in ArcGIS
I have DTM for quite small area (400x200 meters) which was interpolated from elevation points. I want to create raster which will show water stream (not arrows but basically slope and river flow map - ...
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Why does the Flow Direction tool output a raster with only one value?
I have a DEM with values that range from 0 to 1040. I'd like to create a layer with the flow directions by means of the Flow Direction tool in the Hydrology section of the ArcToolbox. However, when I ...
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Create a flow vector NetCDF from X and Y velocity components
I want to create a flow vector NetCDF data from two .tif raster, one representing X-velocity and another representing Y-velocity component. Both raster groups have identical spatial extent. I have ...
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Why am I getting a straight flow path (stream) in obviously varying terrain -QGIS
Does anyone have suggestions on why the streams are sometimes represented as longer straight lines, even though the hillshade and contours generated from the same DTM (filled) clearly indicate that ...
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Calculating distance between points following flow direction on ArcMap?
I delineated flow directions in a watershed on ArcMap (10m DEM). Then I want to calculate distance between two points 'following' the flow direction in each raster cell, not a straight line distance.
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Howerive vector stream network from a DEM using D-Infinity Flow Direction algorithm?
I have been working with a 1m LiDAR derived DEM to create a vector stream network. Using the D8 flow direction, D8 flow accumulation, and a specified threshold, I was able to create a vector stream ...
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Understanding ArcGIS Flow Direction pixel values?
The range of values in my flow direction raster is 1-129.
D8 method was used.
I would expect 128 to be the largest value in accordance with the documentation
what's more I show values OTHER THAN 1,...
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Why do we need to make correction manually in flow direction files
I have created flow direction and flow accumulation files for my DEM. Using the feature to point function, Ive got all the points in point form and then I converted them to arrows.
But most of the ...
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Displaying direction of water system with arrows in QGIS?
I would like to put direction arrows next to my Water system just like in OpenTopoMap (see the image under).
I already watched the source code but they made it with Mapnik. However, I am working on ...
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ArcGIS - Flow directions in the 4 cardinal directions only (North, East, South and West)
I would like to know if there is a way to calculate the flow directions in the 4 cardinal directions only (North, East, South and West). Indeed, ArcGIS transfers the flows in the 8 directions, which I ...
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Displaying flow direction using arrow in ArcGIS Desktop?
I created a flow direction raster out of a DEM using ArcGIS Spatial Analyst Tools/ Hydrology, so the directions are coded in raster values as displayed below.
[http://desktop.arcgis.com/de/arcmap/10....
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Compute flow accumulation only from flow direction?
I am looking to calculate flow accumulation from a flow direction raster. In ArcGIS there is Flow Accumulation (http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/tools/spatial-analyst-toolbox/flow-accumulation....
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Are there any continental-scale flow accumulation products besides Hydrosheds?
I am trying to compute branching angles of drainage networks for roughly the western half of the U.S. Because many of these streams are non-perennial (don't have water all year), some of the standard ...
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What is the difference between Aspect and Flow Direction tools?
There are two seemingly identical Spatial Analysis tools:
(1) Surface -> Aspect:
Derives aspect from a raster surface. The aspect identifies the
downslope direction of the maximum rate of change ...
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Flow Direction Raster Value Range
I am interested to know why ‘Flow Direction Raster’, derived from ‘Filled DEM’, generates values ranges from 1-128, with pixel depth of 8 bit unsigned integer which is readily capable to store values ...
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flow direction and flow length in arcmap
I am trying to replicate a flow length calculation in arcmap 10.2. I have an elevation raster with a pixel range from 0 to 3038.96m (32 bit). When I run the flow direction calculation, the pixel range ...
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Understanding Slope Line and Flow Direction in ArcGIS Desktop?
I would like to create a Flow Direction (Polyline - not raster) which needs to follow slope direction (as arrow in picture I attached)
I'm working in mike urban (SWMM Model) and the software assign ...
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Verifying an answer in a GIS book (D8 flow direction)
I am currently reading this book and I found the answer a bit confusing. Would be nice if someone could elaborate on the accuracy of the following sentence:
The values 64 and 16 have the highest ...
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Getting errors after about 30 mins of processing Flow Direction using ArcGIS Desktop?
I'm trying to process the flow direction from a filled DEM using ArcGIS 10.2.2 and I get these errors after about 30 mins of processing, every time, no matter what I try. I tried changing the raster's ...
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Doing watershed delineation properly using ArcGIS Desktop?
I am using ArcGIS Desktop 10.2.
I have the contours and the stream in AutoCAD Civil, after converting to a shapefile, I exported them in GIS,
after I created the TIN from the contours below:
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Create a flow network from a flow direction ARC GIS
First, I created a flow_direction from a DEM, then I applied corrections to this flow direction.
Now my question, how to create a flow network (order flow) from a flow direction, that I already ...
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Problem with Flow Direction in DEM [closed]
I have the following problem with Flow Direction Tool in my DEM and with such wrong calculated flow direction in the centre of DEM I am unable to delineate any watershed. What can I do?
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Flow direction generated for river is incorrect
I am trying to generate a hydrologic model and I can not really proceed on the next processes. I have this problem on generating flow direction. I have already executed fill sinks and the next is flow ...
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ArcGIS - Flow Direction (Algorithm) [closed]
I am curious about the algorithm of Flow Direction in ArcGIS. Recently I am studying about Hidrology, and I have some questions regard to Flow Direction in GIS.
The size of this cell is 100m x 100m, ...
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Flow direction without DEM / raster
I am trying to figure out flow direction for a stream network and I do not have a high resolution DEM data for the same. I only have information about the stream orders and the network itself. Is ...
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