Morphometric and hydrological variables of a river basin are fundamental tools for water quality management within the basin. The paper aims to provide a method for the calculation of morphometric and hydrological variables based on a sub-basins agglutination strategy. The agglutination respects the topology of the existing drainage network within the hydrographic basin according to Shreve's stream order. Preliminary results are provided: TerraHidro system developed at INPE is used to assess a set of variables, in particular, the morphometric variable Gradient Factor and the hydrological variable Maximum Drainage Order of Strahler. An exemplified application is provided considering the Brazilian Brumadinho dam basin
Agglutination of sub-basins using shreve order
M De Martino
2021
Abstract
Morphometric and hydrological variables of a river basin are fundamental tools for water quality management within the basin. The paper aims to provide a method for the calculation of morphometric and hydrological variables based on a sub-basins agglutination strategy. The agglutination respects the topology of the existing drainage network within the hydrographic basin according to Shreve's stream order. Preliminary results are provided: TerraHidro system developed at INPE is used to assess a set of variables, in particular, the morphometric variable Gradient Factor and the hydrological variable Maximum Drainage Order of Strahler. An exemplified application is provided considering the Brazilian Brumadinho dam basinI documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.