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Customized Watershed Modeling Tools
WMS 11.3 includes a host of customized tools
that help complete your projects quickly
GIS Tools
- Without ArcGIS: import shapefile data and use the imported data for building hydrologic and hydraulic models
- With ArcGIS: import and use any file format supported by ArcGIS for hydrologic/hydraulic models (ArcGIS 10.0 supported)
- Export hydrologic and hydraulic model data to a variety of raster and vector GIS formats
Web-based data acquisition tools
- Download USGS elevation, topographic map, and aerial photography data directly from WMS
- Seamlessly import downloaded data and use it for building hydrologic and hydraulic models
Terrain data import and editing tools
- Import a variety of elevation data formats:
- USGS DEMs - download and use any format of DEM from the USGS
- USGS NED data
- ArcGIS Raster (ASCII format)
- Contour data (as ArcGIS shapefiles or CAD files)
- XYZ survey points
- Read, view, edit, and build models with elevation data inside of WMS
- Combine and modify elevation data from multiple sources into a single dataset that can be used for modeling
- Modify individual elevation values or stamp linear features (such as levees or stream elevations) into elevation data
Integration with FHWA hydraulic calculation software
- A license to WMS includes the HY-8 modeling wizard, which guides you through the process of:
- Delineating a watershed upstream from a culvert and computing a hydrograph
- Sizing the culvert
- Routing the hydrograph downstream from a culvert
- Determining the inundated area behind a culvert
- Analyzing an existing culvert
- Draw culvert and roadway layouts, compute lengths, and transfer computed and entered data between WMS and HY-8
- Create hydraulic structures (stream channels, gutters and inlets, riprap structures, weirs, detention basins, and rational method basins) and run hydraulic computations using FHWA-approved methods in the Hydraulic Toolbox
- WMS provides interfaces to the latest versions of HY-8 and the Hydraulic Toolbox distributed by FHWA