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CSDMS all hands meeting 2011

High resolution surface process modeling in a GRASS GIS environment

Michael Barton, Arizona State University Tempe Arizona, . michael.barton@asu.edu
Isaac Ullah, Arizona State University Tempe Arizona, United States. isaac.ullah@asu.edu
Helena Mitasova, North Carolina State University Raleigh North Carolina, United States. hmitaso@ncsu.edu


[[Image:|300px|right|link=File:]]As part of the Mediterranean Landscape Dynamics (MedLand) project to create a modeling laboratory for human-landscape interaction, we have developed a suite of landscape evolution tools in the GRASS GIS environment. The core of this tool set is a Python script to estimate sediment transport for hillslopes, gullies/rills, and small channels, and simulate resulting terrain change for high-resolution 3D digital landscapes. Because it takes advantage of raster-optimized routines in GRASS, it is very fast on normal desktop systems, making it ideal for simulating long-term landscape change resulting from human activity, climate change, or other drivers. We provide examples of how this landscape evolution model is being used in the MedLand project.


R landscape evol example.jpg
r.landscape_evol.py model results for landscape in Mediterranean Spain