L 4 C Gridded Data 2022
L 4 C Gridded Data 2022
Shared Data
Components:
Grid Data
Gregory Karlovits, P.E., PH, CFM
Hydrologic Engineering Center
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
What’s a Grid?
• Spatial data on a regular
lattice
• Raster data
• Each pixel represents an
average value over the cell
HMS: Two Grid Philosophies
• A grid is a raster with no
notion of time
• A gridset is a set of
rasters with each indexed
by time
Data Sources
• Varies by type of data
• All can use HEC-DSS
• Grids can use raster data
formats
• ASCII
• GeoTIFF
Gridset Workflow
Gridsets are more complicated
because a time-series of grids is
involved
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Grid Data Importer
• A set of utilities for importing grid
data to DSS are available
• Import from one or many files
• Choose which variables to import
• Clip
• Handle projections
• Resample
Export Subbasins Layer
Step 1 - File Selection
Step 2 - Variable Selection
Step 3 - Clipping, Projection, and Resampling
Step 4 - DSS Output Selection
Add grid data in HEC-HMS
Link Up Data
Precipitation-Frequency Importer
Precipitation-Frequency Importer
HEC-HMS
Shared Data Components
Grid Data