[GRASS-user] Building topologically correct stream network

[Margherita Di Leo]

Hi all
Hi Markus,
thanks for your answer. I found that the problem is in the topology of 
the river network. I think that v.strahler produces many '0' because it 
finds many little 'circles' in the stream vector. I tried to produce the 
stream network both with r.watershed -> r.to.vect and with r.strahler.sh 
-> r.to.vect: the results obtained in both ways are very similar. Is 
there a way to eliminate these circles, not by hand ?

Thank you for your time

margherita


Markus Metz wrote:
>
> Margherita Di Leo wrote:
>> I'm sorry but the procedure that I proposed does not produce good 
>> results. In fact the ascii file produced by v.strahler has very 
>> strange orders, and also many 0 (that does not have sense in strahler 
>> order!). I think the problem is generated in finding the outlets 
> Outlet points are where stream is not null and drainage direction is 
> negative, e.g.
>
> r.mapcalc "outlet_points = if(!isnull(streams) && drainage < 0, 
> streams, null())"
>
> That would give you outlet points whose cell value is the stream 
> segment number leading to the outlet point.
>
>> and/or confluences.
> All nodes of the stream vector, excluding outlet points?
>
> Markus M
>
>> Waiting for the response of the List (please)..
>>
>> margherita
>>
>>
>> Jarek Jasiewicz wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> maybe this will help:
>>>
>>> http://gis.vsb.cz/GIS_Ostrava/GIS_Ova_2009/sbornik/Lists/Papers/060.pdf
>>>
>>> it require another gis program but gives great results!
>>>
>>> Jarek
>>>
>>>
>>> Margherita Di Leo pisze:
>>>> Hi Stephen,
>>>> I actually am fighting against almost the same problem, so let's do 
>>>> it together :)
>>>> I found that r.strahler.sh works well to delineate streams and 
>>>> correct topology, (I use a treshold of 1km^2, it works well but 
>>>> don't ask me why :) ), but (in my little experience) does not work 
>>>> to order streams, so I must run v.strahler after r.strahler.sh.
>>>> I know it's a very small hint but hope this helps.
>>>>
>>>> Best
>>>> margherita
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have a low relief area in the costal plain of georgia that I am 
>>>> trying to produce a topologically correct stream network. There are 
>>>> many breaks in the flow accumulation grid and I would like to 
>>>> delineate the streams and "correct" the topology after r.thin and 
>>>> r.to.vect have been preformed so that I can then use v.strahler to 
>>>> order the streams. Thanks for any help and I will provide and data 
>>>> that would be helpful. thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- Stephen Sefick Let's not spend our time and resources thinking 
>>>> about things that are so little or so large that all they really do 
>>>> for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, 
>>>> and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being 
>>>> mammals. -K. Mullis
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>


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