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The USUAL watershed tools automate time intensive GIS workflows to delineate rivers, sub-catchments, interfluves, and river. Additionally, USUAL preprocesses model outputs to easily integrate into 1D routing models.

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Utah State University AppLied (USUAL) Watershed Tools

Overview

The Utah State University AppLied (USUAL) Watershed Toolkit is an ArcGIS Pro toolkit that automates the delineation of watersheds, sub-catchments, river-adjacent interfluves, and discretized river networks with the topological structure and feature attributes necessary for one-dimensional source-to-sink transport modeling in watersheds.

Help Documentation

USUAL_USER_MANUAL_V1.pdf contains step by step instructions on how to download the toolkit, add the tookit to ArcGIS Pro, and details all inputs and outputs for each tool. Additional help can be accessed by hovering over inputs in the GUI or clicking on the ? in the upper right corner of each tool.

Note: In recent versions the script folder needs to be in the same folder as the toolbox, as the scripts are no longer embedded in the toolbox.

Required Software

  • ArcGIS Pro version 2.9 or later w/ Spatial Analyst and 3D Analyst license

Accessing Toolkit/Quick Start Guide

  1. Clone or download the repository
  2. Unzip folder if using direct download
  3. Open ArcGIS Pro
  4. Use Catalog to navigate to the toolkit
  5. From here each tool can be opened and run

Recommended Citation

David, S.R., Murphy, B.P., Czuba, J.A., Ahammad, M. and Belmont, P., 2023. USUAL Watershed Tools: A new geospatial toolkit for hydro-geomorphic delineation. Environmental Modelling & Software, 159, p.105576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105576

Known Issues

ArcGIS does not always allows for tables to be overwritten. Temporary solution: In this case delete the temp folder for the respective tool you are running and try rerunning.

Filenames with spaces can cause issues. I am working on incorporating a fix for this, however for the moment it is recommended that file names and paths does not contain spaces.

Reporting Issues/Troubleshooting

Option 1: Submit an issue under the issues tab.

Option 2: Email scott.david@usu.edu

Updates/Fixes

7/31/2024-Released updated version to work with ArcGIS version 3.3 03/12/2024-Released an update to fix issues with Fluvial Reach Average Width tools for ArcPro versions 3.1 and later 01/10/2023-Updated Watershed and River Delineation tool to remove some redundant steps.

Publications

David, S.R., Murphy, B.P., Czuba, J.A., Ahammad, M. and Belmont, P., 2023. USUAL Watershed Tools: A new geospatial toolkit for hydro-geomorphic delineation. Environmental Modelling & Software, 159, p.105576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105576