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Main Title Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) - A GIS-Based Hydrologic Modeling Tool: Documentation and User Manual, Version 1.5.
Author Scott, S. N. ; Burns, I. S. ; Levick, L. ; Hernandez, M. ; Goodrich, D. C. ;
CORP Author Agricultural Research Service, Tucson, AZ. Southwest Watershed Research Center. ;Environmental Protection Agency, Las Vegas, NV. Office of Research and Development. ;Wyoming Univ., Laramie. Dept. of Rangeland Ecology and Watershed Management.
Publisher 2004
Year Published 2004
Report Number EPA/600/C-06/001;
Stock Number PB2006-115527
Additional Subjects Geographic information systems ; Hydrology ; Watersheds ; Documentation ; Water resource management ; Runoff ; Erosion ; Natural resources management ; Land use ; Spatial distribution ; Data collection ; Computerized simulation ; User manual ; Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment(AGWA)
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NTIS  PB2006-115527 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 102p
Abstract
Planning and assessment in land and water resource management are evolving from simple, local-scale problems toward complex, spatially explicit regional ones. Such problems have to be addressed with distributed models that can compute runoff and erosion at different spatial and temporal scales. The extensive data requirements and the difficult task of building input parameter files, however, have long represented an obstacle to the timely and cost-effective use of such complex models by resource managers. The USDA-ARS Southwest Watershed Research Center, in cooperation with the U.S. EPA Office of Research and Development, has developed a GIS tool to facilitate this process. A geographic information system (GIS) provides the framework within which spatially-distributed data are collected and used to prepare model input files and evaluate model results for two watershed runoff and erosion models: KINEROS2 and SWAT. AGWA is designed as a tool for performing relative assessment (change analysis) resulting from land cover/use change. Areas identified through large-scale assessment with SWAT as being most susceptible to change can be evaluated in more detail at smaller scales with KINEROS2. AGWA includes functions to assist in land cover/land use modification, in scenario development for individual watersheds and for areas of interest, and in best management practice and erosion management analyses.