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Catchments Menu

The Catchments menu offers tools and functionalities related to creating catchment features for setting-up rainfall-runoff models for collection systems.

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Undo/Redo

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Offers Undo or Redo options during Catchments editing.

Edit Features

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Tools for graphical editing of Catchment features on the Map, such as for creating, editing, and deleting catchment features.

Please refer to chapter Tools for Graphical Catchment Editing for more details on the various tools under the Edit Features toolbox on the Catchments ribbon.

Selection

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The 'Edit selections' list contains tools for editing/manipulating selected elements:

  • Move selection
  • Delete selection
  • Merge selection: for merging selected elements.
  • Connect selected catchments

Catchment Toolbox

Please refer to chapter Automated Catchment Tools for more details on the various tools under the Catchment toolbox.

The toolbox includes the following tools.

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Catchment delineation

Tool for automatic catchment delineation as Thiessen polygons or derived from a digital elevation model (DEM).

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Catchment processing

Tool to calculate imperviousness, time of concentration and other hydrological parameters for hydrological models.

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Catchment slope and length

tool is an automated way to calculate the slope and length of a catchment based on a DEM. These parameters are used for MIKE 1D rainfall-runoff Kinematic Wave models.

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Connection tool

Tool for automatic connection of catchments to the network.

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Special tools

Offers additional GIS spatial processing operations such as Merge and Join.

Show on Map

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Contains tools and functionalities for validating catchment layer topology, as well as checking catchment and connections to the collection system network.

Please refer to chapter Graphical Tools for Connecting Catchments to Networks for more details on the various tools under the Show on Map toolbox.