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Special Tools for Structural and Hydrographic Analysis of River Systems in the ArcMap Environment

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The article presents a set of instruments that can be applied to a digital elevation model to determine and evaluate the characteristics of various structural elements of a river basin: a network of potential thalwegs, water-divide lines, and partial catchments. The tool Stream Network Orders allows the user to construct a network of thalwegs using a digital elevation model and different forms of the initiation function (in particular, taking into account climate characteristics) and to determine the orders in the obtain network. The tool Ridgeline Network Orders determines the positions of watershed lines and assigns orders to segments of those lines based on the total travel paths from water divides to the mouths of basin systems. Two methods of classification area used: the order by the entire sequence and the order by triplets of higher orders. The instrument Watershed Thickness Metrics is designed to calculate different measures of river basin thickness. The set of instruments utilizes the functionality of the Spatial Analyst module for ArcGIS Desktop.

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This study was carried out under governmental order to Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (subject FMWZ-2022-0001, state registration no. 122041100222–7).

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  1. Water Problems Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119333, Moscow, Russia

    B. I. Gartsman & A. L. Entin

  2. Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    A. L. Entin

  3. Pacific Geographical Institute, Far-Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, 690041, Vladivostok, Russia

    E. A. Shekman

  4. Institute of Natural and Technical Systems, 299011, Sevastopol, Russia

    B. I. Gartsman

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Gartsman, B.I., Entin, A.L. & Shekman, E.A. Special Tools for Structural and Hydrographic Analysis of River Systems in the ArcMap Environment. Water Resour 51, 171–184 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0097807824700726

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