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Global 30m Height Above the Nearest Drainage
Conference Paper · April 2016
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3956.8880
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Gennadii Donchyts1,2, Hessel Winsemius1, Jaap Schellekens1, Tyler Erickson4, Hongkai Gao3, Hubert Savenije2, and Nick van de Giesen2
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Deltares
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Delft University of Technology
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Arizona State University
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Global 30m Height Above the Nearest Drainage
New elevation dataset normalized according to the local height found along the drainage network
Introduction Results Potential Applications
The Height Above the Nearest Drainage (HAND) [1], a digital elevation model normalized using • Hydrological modeling: planform classification: valley, ecotone, slope, plateau
the nearest drainage is used for hydrological and more general purpose applications, such as haz- • Remote sensing: likelihood of water, hill shadow correction, local error correction
ard mapping, landform classification, and remote sensing. One of the essential characteristics of • Flood hazard mapping
HAND is its ability to capture heterogeneities in local environments, difficult to measure or model • Flash flood prone area mapping: Flash Flood Susceptibility Index (FFSI)
otherwise. While many applications of HAND were published in the academic literature [4], no glob- FLOODS FFSI
HAND Low HAND areas
al scale HAND dataset was generated and analyzed yet, especially, using higher resolution DEMs, HAND < 2m
such as the new, one arc-second (approximately 30m) resolution version of SRTM.
In this work, we present the first global version of HAND computed using a mosaic of two DEMs:
SRTM (30m) and Viewfinder Panoramas DEM (90m). The lower resolution DEM was used to cover
latitudes above 60 degrees north, where SRTM is missing. Distance to drain
To parallelize the processing a new homogenized, equal-area version of HydroBASINS [2] catch-
ments was generated. New catchments boundaries were used to delineate DEM using a D8 meth- Flash Flood Susceptibility Index (FFSI)
od. The method used to compute HAND was implemented using PCRaster software, running on HAND < 10m
Google Compute Engine [4] parallel platform.
Upstream slope
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HAND, m
Homogenize
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Delineation
Delineation Tile
HydroBASINS Delineate
LOW WATER PROBABILITY MASKING SAR ERROR DETECTION
Clip by tile detected water slope > 30 HAND > 15m
Max(Area) Mosaic and download DEM from GEE
Merge
Size < 4 degree Pit filling
Upload to GEE
Single DEM files size < 1GB Local drainage directions (D8)
Flow accumulation
19 328 catchments false negatives
Stream order better
N > 1 000 000 Flow accumulation false positives
L4 Distance from the nearest drainage
Height above the nearest drainage false positives
… N = 19 328
Next
DEM PITS LDD
L6
• Better river head detection
… 1024 tiles
• Improve quality for >60N
L8 FA HAND DIST
• Release as Google Earth Engine Asset, concact now for beta testing!
• Filter noise (apply Landsat-based water mask)
…
• Planform classes (valley, ecotone, slope, plateau)
• Publication
References
1. Nobre, A. D.; Cuartas, L. A.; Hodnett, M.; Rennó, C. D.; Rodrigues, G.; Silveira, A.; Waterloo, M.;
Conclusions DEM HAND
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Saleska, S. Height Above the Nearest Drainage – a hydrologically relevant new terrain model. J.
Hydrol. 2011, 404, 13–29.
2. Lehner, Bernhard, Kristine Verdin, and Andy Jarvis. “New global hydrography derived from space-
• HAND dataset is generated and available for testing 80
borne elevation data.” EOS, Transactions American Geophysical Union 89.10 (2008): 93-94.
3. Gharari, S., et al. “Hydrological landscape classification: investigating the performance of HAND
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based landscape classifications in a central European meso-scale catchment.” Hydrology and Earth
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System Sciences 15.11 (2011): 3275-3291.
4. Gorelick, N. Google Earth Engine. AGU Fall Meet. Abstr. 2012, 15, 11997.
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