Water Management Information System for the Rio Grande/Bravo Basin

 

Updated: August 2005

Carlos Patino, Daene C. McKinney & David R. Maidment, CRWR

 

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Table of Contents

 

SUMMARY.. 2

1.     INTRODUCTION.. 2

2.     STUDY AREA.. 3

3.     METHODOLOGY.. 5

3.1.        COLLECTION OF THE GEO-SPATIAL DATA FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES. 5

3.2.        DEVELOPMENT OF THE GEOSPATIAL DATABASE. 7

3.3.        CLIPPING OR MERGING THE DATA SETS DEPENDING ON THEIR ORIGINAL EXTENT.. 8

3.4.        CREATING THE FEATURE DATASETS IN THE GEODATABASE. 8

3.5.        OBTAINING TIME SERIES DATA FOR THE BASIN.. 9

3.6.        IMPORTING TIME SERIES INTO THE GEODATABASE. 10

3.7.        APPLYING REGIONAL HYDROID’S. 12

3.8.        WRAPHYDRO DATA MODEL SCHEMA.. 13

3.9.        APPLYING THE WRAPHYDRO TOOLS. 14

3.10.       RASTER-NETWORK REGIONALIZATION PROCESS. 16

3.11.       Exchange of Temporal Information. 19

3.12.       INSTALLING THE DSS HYDRO TOOLBAR DLL. 23

3.13.       DSS Hydro Toolbar Description (After you have installed the DLL in ArcMap) 24

4.     WATER QUALITY DATA MODEL (WQDM) IN GIS FOR THE RIO GRANDE/BRAVO BASIN.. 27

4.1.        Data Collection. 27

4.2.        Developing the schema of the Water Quality Data Model (WQDM) 27

4.3.        Spatial reference information. 31

4.4.        Entity and attribute information. 32

4.4.1.       Feature Class: HydroEdge. 32

4.4.2.       Feature Class: Monitoring Point 34

4.4.3.       Feature Class: Waterbody. 35

4.4.4.       Feature Class: Watershed. 35

4.4.5.       Feature Class: HydroJunction. 36

4.4.6.       Time Series table. 36

4.4.7.       TSGroup table. 36

4.4.8.       TSType table. 36

4.4.9.       Impaired Code Table. 36

4.4.10.     Agency responsible table. 37

4.4.11.     Topology and relationships among the feature classes. 37

4.5.        Data processing. 37

4.5.1.       Creating HydroEdges. 37