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    Hi Thomas:<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/13/2015 10:28 PM, Thomas Adams
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      <div dir="ltr">Micha,
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        <div>No, after looking at what's going-on in more detail, I
          think the DEM is too coarse (even at 90m), so the flow
          direction and accumulation is mis-directed in one critical
          area of the watershed. I tried using r.carve, but it is taking
          forever — after 15 minutes, no advancement of the progress
          bar…</div>
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    I don't see why carving into a DEM should cause r.watershed to run
    more slowly, unless you have carved out only a section of some of
    the streams. If your carving does not continue right to the outlet
    of the stream (i.e. to an ocean, or to the edge of the region) then
    r.watershed would actually have to fill in that carved out stream to
    find a flow path.  That could cause the performance hit. <br>
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    Additionally, are you using GRASS 7.0? As you probably know some
    substantial improvements to the algorithms were introduced in 7 for
    several modules, r.watershed among them.<br>
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    And third, why use the D8 flow direction when MFD is available
    (again in GRASS 7.0)? That could also be causing what you refer to
    as breaks in the channels. MFD is especailly good, I believe, in
    flat areas.<br>
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    In any case, Keep up posted on your progress.<br>
    Thanks,<br>
    Micha<br>
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        <div>I did not want to have to do this for my testing, but I'll
          probably try at 3 or 10 meter — lots of pixels for my basin!
          The problem, in general, for me is that I want to apply my
          techniques at international locations where I probably won't
          have the benefit of higher resolution DEMs, so I need to
          develop something a bit more robust…</div>
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        <div>Cheers!</div>
        <div>Tom</div>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:15 PM,
            Micha Silver <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  <div>On 02/13/2015 08:48 PM, Thomas Adams wrote:<br>
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                    <div dir="ltr">Stefan,
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                      <div>A fair question; since I know the stream
                        topology from personal experience it is clear
                        that there should be no break in the stream
                        network and the flow accumulation grid should
                        reflect that. I am seeing the flow accumulation
                        values break at a point where they should
                        continue to accumulate downstream.</div>
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                </span> Are these breaks possibly caused by null pixels
                in the DEM? <br>
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                          <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015
                            at 11:43 AM, Stefan Lüdtke <span dir="ltr"><<a
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                              just out of curiosity, what do you mean by
                              "break in the flow<br>
                              accumulation"?<br>
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                              Cheers,<br>
                              <br>
                              Stefan<br>
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                                  On 02/13/2015 07:12 PM, Thomas Adams
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                                  > Hello all!<br>
                                  ><br>
                                  > I'm making use of the flow
                                  accumulation grid in GRASS 6.4.5<br>
                                  > generated from r.watershed using
                                  the SFD (D8) flow algorithm. The<br>
                                  > DEM has a 250m spatial
                                  resolution. What I'm getting is a
                                  break in<br>
                                  > the flow accumulation in a few
                                  locations which is causing me<br>
                                  > serious problems with subsequent
                                  processing (with help from some<br>
                                  > here, I have put together some
                                  scripting to generate a pixel<br>
                                  > connectivity file for a
                                  distributed hydrologic model).<br>
                                  ><br>
                                  > Besides going to a higher
                                  resolution DEM, are there any thoughts
                                  as<br>
                                  > to how I can eliminate these flow
                                  accumulation breaks?<br>
                                  ><br>
                                  > Thank you, Tom<br>
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