A method to align watersheds with the Watershed Boundary Dataset - Curtis Price
Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 2:00 PM Eastern - One Hour, One Main Presentation & Two Lightning Talks
Abstract - The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has begun an effort to serve watershed boundaries for its continuous-record gages in alignment with the seamless, locally-reviewed Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) polygons. Because gage locations are not located exactly on WBD boundaries, a method was developed that, given a user-supplied watershed polygon and pour point, a) clips and conforms the input polygon to a WBD polygon boundary, b) merges any “upstream” WBD polygons, and c) recalculates area.
Biography – Curtis Price is a Physical Scientist and GIS Specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey. He has been supporting GIS applications as a member of USGS' Enterprise GIS team for more than twenty years. His research interests include raster data analysis and landscape characterization.
