Intended aims and scope:
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a hands-on introduction to RiverTools 4.0, which will be released this summer prior to the meeting in Nanjing. This is a major new release which includes 64-bit support for the latest versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, a new graphics system, a streamlined graphical user interface and many other new capabilities.Course programme:
Attendees of this workshop will become familiar with the key features of RiverTools 4.0 by working through a set of tutorials.
Workshop Outline
Overview of RiverTools 4.0
Tutorial 1: RiverTools Fundamentals
- Lesson 1: Starting RiverTools
- Lesson 2: Exploring the RiverTools Environment
- Lesson 3: Opening a RiverTools Data Set
- Lesson 4: Visualizing Elevation Data
- Lesson 5: Interacting with Images
- Lesson 6: Exiting RiverTools
Tutorial 2: Extracting a River Network
- Lesson 1: Importing a DEM into RiverTools
- Lesson 2: Mosaicking DEMs
- Lesson 3: Extracting a River Network
- Lesson 4: Viewing Information About the DEM and Files
- Lesson 5: Extracting and Displaying Basin Boundaries
- Lesson 6: Working with Multiple Basins
- Lesson 7: Displaying Multi-Layer Plots
Tutorial 3. Analyzing Terrain and Watersheds
- Lesson 1: D8, D-Infinity and the Mass Flux Method
- Lesson 2: Terrain Derivatives and Curvature
- Lesson 3: Area-Altitude Plots
- Lesson 4: Longitudinal Profiles
- Lesson 5: Attributes of Channel Reaches
- Lesson 6: Flow Distance Grids
- Lesson 7: Area-Distance Plots and Width Functions
- Lesson 8: Depressions in a DEM
- Lesson 9: Horton-Strahler Stream Statistics
- Lesson 10: Basin Shape Analysis
Tutorial 4. Ellipsoids and Map Projections
- Lesson 1. Changing the Ellipsoid Model
- Lesson 2. Making Measurements with Window Tools
- Lesson 3. Using a Map Projection
- Lesson 4. Getting a Closer Look
- Lesson 5. Making DEMs for Subregions
Conclusion
Technical requirements:
Workshop attendees will need to bring a laptop computer if they want to run the hands-on tutorials. If possible, the demo version of RiverTools 4.0 should be obtained from www.rivertools.com and installed on the laptop before the workshop. RiverTools 4.0 runs on Windows (XP, Vista, 7, 8), Mac (OS X 10.5 +) and Linux (Ubuntu, Red Hat). The demo version includes all of the DEM data sets necessary to run the tutorials.
