GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling of the Sturgeon River Watershed

4/15/01

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GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling of the Sturgeon River Watershed

Outline

Project Status

PPT Slide

Project Status

Modeling Framework for Watershed Management

What is a GIS?

Grid Data Model

Vector Data Model

Why Use GIS in Hydrology?

Defining a Watershed

Defining a Watershed

Defining a Watershed

Defining a Watershed

Defining a Watershed

Basic Hydrology Problem

Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

Infiltration and Runoff

Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

Rainfall-Runoff Modeling

PPT Slide

Common Model Parameters

Time Series (Gage) Data

Precipitation Gages

Flow Gages

PPT Slide

Spatial Watershed Data

HEC Software

GeoHMS (Geospatial Hydrologic Modeling extension)

Processing Data with GeoHMS

PPT Slide

Examples: Rouge River Basin

HEC-Hydrologic Modeling System (HMS)

Basin Model -Sturgeon

Basin Model Parameters

Meteorological Model

HEC-HMS Output

Results

Conclusions

Acknowledgments

Links: Models and Data

Author: David Watkins 

Email: dwatkins@mtu.edu