a. Trace the boundary of the watershed upstream of the point
(A). Do this directly on the image and/or with graph paper and
estimate the drainage area (A) in m2 of the catchment upstream of
point A.
b. Upstream of point A and downstream of the obvious tributary
junction in the catchment (Figure 2), estimate the channel width
(w) in 5 to 10 locations. What is the mean channel width?
c. It turns out that the smart folks at NASA outfitted the
Cassini satellite with a stereo imaging system. Consequently, we
know that the elevation of the white-ish regions in the headwaters
of our catchment are approximately 150 m higher than the point
labeled A (Figure 2). Using this information, estimate the channel
slope (S) of the river.
100 m Figure 2: Blow-up of channel system shown in Figure 1. Note that the point A. is the same in both images
a. Trace the boundary of the watershed upstream of the point (A). Do this directly on the image and/or with graph paper
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a. Trace the boundary of the watershed upstream of the point (A). Do this directly on the image and/or with graph paper
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