DESCRIPTION

v.stream.network populates the attribute table of a river network built by r.stream.extract with five new columns that define the nodes and links within a river network. These are (default names given):

NOTES

streams is a set of vector lines that is generated by r.stream.extract. It is recommended to be built as follows (Python code):
# Choose elevation map and threshold
elevation = srtm
threshold = 1E6 # [m**2], minimum catchment size = 1 km**2
# Build a map of cell areas: pick one of these
# km2 is more intuitive, but 1 km2 is the threshold for the smallest
# threshold catchment size
r.mapcalc('cellArea_meters2 = '+str(reg.nsres)+' * '+str(reg.ewres), overwrite=True)
r.mapcalc("cellArea_km2 = cellArea_meters2 / 10^6", overwrite=True)

# Use r.watershed to build a drainage basin with units of length**2
# instead of arbitrary units (cells)
r.watershed(elevation=elevation, flow='cellArea_meters2', accumulation='drainageArea_m2', drainage='drainageDirection', stream='streams', threshold=thresh, flags='s', overwrite=True)
# Note that this will include areas of negative (i.e. offmap) flow accumulation

# Build watershed network using r.stream.extract: single-flow-direction (SFD)
print "Building drainage network"
r.stream_extract(elevation=elevation, accumulation='drainageArea_m2', threshold=thresh, d8cut=0, mexp=0, stream_raster='streams', stream_vector='streams', direction='draindir', overwrite=True)

SEE ALSO

r.stream.extract v.stream.order

REFERENCES

None (yet)

AUTHORS

Andrew D. Wickert

Last changed: $Date 2016-09-27$