Hamish wrote:
MMetz:
What exactly is wrong with topology? The existence of these dangles?
note the v.strahler help page makes special mention that if you used
r.watershed you should check the topology. Maybe it makes a bitter deal
out of that than is really the case?
S:
Maybe there is nothing wrong. On further reflection the area that
I am trying to use this procedure on is very flat and there are
intermittent streams and wetlands (site visit) all over the
study area. These non-connected lines maybe showing
intermittentancy?
do you see a "ladder effect" in the r.to.vect river network?
(like a braided river with all joins at right angles)
maybe that is the problematic topology the module is concerned about?
I can only think of these two possible problems - dangles and ladders.
Dangles are caused by the method used to extract streams from a flow
accumulation map whereas these ladders are an artefact of r.to.vect.
I'm regularly trying out different threshold values in r.watershed, only
to get different streams to be vectorized, flow accumulation and
drainage direction are not affected by the threshold option in
r.watershed. I have an idea for a new module that would take flow
accumulation and theshold as input and would then extract streams from
it, both as raster and as vector (topologically clean in the v.strahler
sense). This new module would work with both SFD and MFD flow
accumulation and with r.terraflow flow accumulation. The problem is that
the rough concept exists in my head only and I have no time right now to
develop this module. All the code is there in r.watershed, it just needs
to be reorganized a bit...
Markus M
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