<div dir="ltr">Hi Rich<div><br></div><div> Thanks for sharing, I see, I will continue with GRASS version I guess. </div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Ming</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Rich Shepard <<a href="mailto:rshepard@appl-ecosys.com">rshepard@appl-ecosys.com</a>> 于2020年10月7日周三 下午1:42写道:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, ming han wrote:<br>
<br>
> Hope this email find you safe and healthy<br>
><br>
> I tried watershed delineation with both ArcGIS and GRASS. but I got<br>
> different results.<br>
><br>
> I was using D8 flow direction method in both ArcGIS and GRASS. My study<br>
> area is very flat. Is there any tool in GRASS will generate the same result<br>
> with ArcGIS<br>
<br>
Ming,<br>
<br>
I did wetland determinations and delineations for almost a decade but<br>
dropped it when it became a commodity. I offer two points for your<br>
consideration:<br>
<br>
1) The ArcGIS may not be any more 'accurate' than the GRASS results. Never<br>
having used the former I cannot comment on how they do this.<br>
<br>
2) Of greater importance is that you can pick either one; it doesn't matter<br>
in the real world. In 1994 I was the first environmental consultant<br>
authorized by Oregon's Department of State Lands to use GPS receivers to<br>
delineate wetland boundaries. They had insisted that only professional land<br>
surveyors could do this and they set a 2cm accuracy standard. Really?<br>
Wetland boundaries are transistion zones that can be several meters wide,<br>
depending on topography, soils, and antecedent precipitation conditions when<br>
the boundary is flagged. A stream bank is an exception to this broad<br>
transition area. When I made the case that there is no sharp line of<br>
demarkation between wetland and upland they accepted my delineations.<br>
<br>
Of similar disconnect between engineering and natural ecosystems, I worked<br>
for a brief time for a water management district in the 1980s. They decided<br>
to digitize the 7.5 min (1:24000) topographic maps covering the District's<br>
area and contracted with a company in India to do the work. The contract<br>
specified that the digitized lines had to aline withine 1/2 the width of<br>
roads and other boundaries on the maps. When I pointed out to my Division<br>
Director that the maps themselves said "this map is accurate to +/- 24 feet"<br>
so they were trying to be more accurate than the maps themselves it was not<br>
well received. :-) (That's one reason I left a government position.)<br>
<br>
Anyway, draw your boundary and in most cases you'll be within that<br>
transition zone.<br>
<br>
HTH,<br>
<br>
Rich<br>
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