Tarsier journal: Carmel Watershed

This page is intended to record a journal of data processing and analysis steps take by various folks in the Carmel Watershed using Tarsier. Its half scratch-pad, and half-tutorial.

Goals

• Get a watershed model up and running for the Carmel Watershed.

Obtaining a DEM

• Follow steps in Tarsier tutorial: Raster data and Tarsier tutorial: Raster resampler
  • Select a 1/3" NED DEM i.e. about 10 meters.
  • Select ArcGRID
  • Download data
  • Open raster in ArcGIS
  • Export to ASCII data
  • Import ASCII data into Tarsier
  • Save as Tarsier raster (.tra)
  • Convert raster from lat/long to UTM using raster resampler

* These steps will soon be replaced by steps that can be fallowed in Tarsier only

Creating a Visualization of the Watershed

• Fallow steps in Tarsier tutorial: Renderer, Adding Agents, Tarsier tutorial: Simple fly-through and Tarsier: Importing shapefiles

Links

• Tarsier tutorials