Watershed

Watershed works with either interactively contributing points or by specifying a layer containing points. Watershed has several optional parameters:Point Identification Field: A string or integer field that supplies a name or ID to each point.Snap Distance: This is the maximum distance that an input point can be moved by the tool. Interactively contributed points or gauge locations may not be exactly coincident with stream locations in the elevation model. The service will move points to be optimally located relative to the flows in the elevation model if they are not already there.Snap Distance Units: The units of measurement for the Snap Distance.Source Database: Available source databases include US30m National Elevation Dataset (NED) for the continental United States (US Geological Survey, 2010-2011), US10m National Elevation Dataset (NED) for Hawaii, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, and the 90m HydroSHEDS for the world between 60 degrees North and 56 degrees South, plus some areas in Canada and Alaska north of 60 degrees. Please refer to the locator map for detailed information about available areas. Additional areas and resolutions will be available in the future.Input Features: The maximum number of input features is 100.Esri processed the source data to derive additional layers required to support high performance and scalable watershed delineation and downstream trace tasks. The source data were the same elevation, Hydrologic Unit boundaries, streams and waterbodies that were used by the Environmental Protection Agency and US Geological Survey to produce NHDPlus V2.1. Sinks were filled unless they fell within a Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD) closed basin, ensuring that flow will only terminate in endorheic regions. The Esri hydroconditioning process differs from the NHDPlus V2.1 process; therefore the resulting watershed delineations and downstream traces do not always match those from NHDPlus V2.1.  To learn more, read the developer documentation for Watershed.

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notes <div><font size='3'>Watershed works with either interactively contributing points or by specifying a layer containing points. Watershed has several optional parameters:</font></div><div><ul><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font size='3'>Point Identification Field: A string or integer field that supplies a name or ID to each point.</font></span></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font size='3'>Snap Distance: This is the maximum distance that an input point can be moved by the tool. Interactively contributed points or gauge locations may not be exactly coincident with stream locations in the elevation model. The service will move points to be optimally located relative to the flows in the elevation model if they are not already there.</font></span></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font size='3'>Snap Distance Units: The units of measurement for the Snap Distance.</font></span></li><li><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'><font size='3'>Source Database: Available source databases include US30m National Elevation Dataset (NED) for the continental United States (US Geological Survey, 2010-2011), US10m National Elevation Dataset (NED) for Hawaii, American Samoa, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands, and the 90m HydroSHEDS for the world between 60 degrees North and 56 degrees South, plus some areas in Canada and Alaska north of 60 degrees. Please refer to the <a href='https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/elevation/api-reference/source-data-for-hydrology-analysis-tasks.htm' target='_blank'>locator map</a> for detailed information about available areas. Additional areas and resolutions will be available in the future.</font></span></li><li><font size='3'>Input Features: The maximum number of input features is 100.</font></li></ul></div><div><font size='3'><span style='line-height: 1.38462; color: rgb(77, 77, 77);'>Esri processed the source data to derive additional layers required to support high performance and scalable watershed delineation and downstream trace tasks. The source data were the same elevation, Hydrologic Unit boundaries, streams and waterbodies that were used by the Environmental Protection Agency and US Geological Survey to produce NHDPlus V2.1. </span><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'>Sinks were filled unless they fell within a </span><a href='https://nhd.usgs.gov/wbd.html' style='line-height: 1.38462;'><span style='color: blue;'>Watershed Boundary Dataset (WBD)</span></a><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'> closed basin, ensuring that flow will only terminate in endorheic regions. </span><span style='line-height: 1.38462; color: rgb(77, 77, 77);'>The Esri hydroconditioning process differs from the NHDPlus V2.1 process; therefore the resulting watershed delineations and downstream traces do not always match those from NHDPlus V2.1.</span><span style='line-height: 1.38462;'> </span> <br /></font></div><div><font size='3'><br /></font></div><div><font size='3'>To learn more, read the <a href='https://developers.arcgis.com/rest/elevation/api-reference/watershed.htm' target='_blank'>developer documentation for Watershed</a>.</font></div><div><font size='3'><br /></font></div>
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