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Practical Assignment-GIS and RS

The document provides details on two GIS assignments for a Watershed Management course. Assignment 1 involved delineating a watershed in ArcGIS by filling a digital elevation model, calculating flow accumulation, selecting streams, assigning stream order, creating a pour point, delineating the watershed, and converting the raster to a polygon feature. Assignment 2 involved merging special woredas from the SNNPR region of Ethiopia into a single zone by clipping the woredas, dissolving them into one polygon, deleting the woredas from the original shapefile, merging the dissolved and original shapefiles, replacing the woreda names with the zone name, and exporting the map.

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Practical Assignment-GIS and RS

The document provides details on two GIS assignments for a Watershed Management course. Assignment 1 involved delineating a watershed in ArcGIS by filling a digital elevation model, calculating flow accumulation, selecting streams, assigning stream order, creating a pour point, delineating the watershed, and converting the raster to a polygon feature. Assignment 2 involved merging special woredas from the SNNPR region of Ethiopia into a single zone by clipping the woredas, dissolving them into one polygon, deleting the woredas from the original shapefile, merging the dissolved and original shapefiles, replacing the woreda names with the zone name, and exporting the map.

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RBA MINCH UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE

DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

WATERSHED MANAGEMENT (M.Sc.)

PRACTICAL ASSIGNMENT ONEAND TWO ON COURSE OF GIS AND REMOTE


SENSIHG (WaMg642)

SUMBITTED BY: GACH CHIOK CHAN

ID No: PRAS/022/13

SUBMITTED TO: INSTRUCTOR Mr. BIRUK.Z (PhD. CADD)

AUGUST 2021

ARBA MINCH, ETHIOPIA


Q#1: Practical one : Delineating a Watershed – Overview of Steps

ArcGIS can delineate the total area flowing into a given outlet, also called a pour point, based on
a digital elevation model. In this analysis, the pour point become stream gage, and I have
delineate the watershed from upstream of stream gage. Recall that a digital elevation model is an
array of evenly spaced grid cells, and that the value of each cell is the estimated elevation of that
cell. ArcGIS can compute from the DEM the direction of flow down a slope and how many cells
“flow into” each cell (called flow accumulation). Here are step of overview for delineating a
watershed in ArcGIS. These are

1. Fill DEM (if there is any problem with DEM pixel)


7. Stream order
2. Flow Accumulation
3. Use map algebra to select specific stream
4. Stream link
5. Stream order
6. Create pour point
7. Watershed
8. Then finally feature to polygon (raster to polygon)

Figure1. Pour point for delineation watershed (assignment1)


Q#2: Practical two: merged of different areas into one segment

Step followed in preparing Segen Area People’s zone map and incorporating it into SNNPR
zonal Map. (Note: I used SNNP zonal shape file)

1. Clipping or exporting the given four special woredas (Konso, Burji, Amaro, and Derashe)

Add SNNPR Z07 data from the attribute table select the above woredas export the data

2. Dissolving

Next to this the exported shape file will be dissolved in to single polygon. To do this, the following
steps followed.

From the arc map select geoprocessing Dissolve for the input requirement the exported data
selected ok.

3. Deleting

Editor starting editing open attribute table of z07 delet the four special woreda.

4. Merging

Geoprocessing Merge for the input requirement the dissolved data and z07 selected ok.

5. Replacing (woredas with Segen zone)

Editor edit the merged data in attribute table name zone.

6. Develop the merged map by inserting grid, north arrow, scale, title … etc.
7. Export the map with JPEG.
Figure.2 Zones merge (Assignment2)

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