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Idaho BRAT Meeting Update (1/9/19) #252

Closed wally-mac closed 5 years ago

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

@CoryMosby and @wally-mac had a status update meeting today (1/9/19) for the Idaho BRAT project. One of the main items that we covered in the call was the new risk and management layers. Cory liked the changes we have made and he determined that the next step was to get buy-in from the folks that have on ground knowledge. As such, Cory is going to reach out to the resource managers in three areas: Owyhee, Big and Little Wood, and Upper Snake and have them select a watershed each of a total of 3 watersheds (HUC 8’s) to run the new model on.

The good news is that the Owyhee and Big and Little Wood areas will only require re-running the risk and management components of the model.

Cory is planning on getting this request out by the end of the week. As soon as we hear back from him I’d like @MatthewMeier and @mhallerud to jump on this and have the watersheds run with the latest version of the BRAT model as quickly as possible.

The reason for the urgency is that we want to have risk and management components finalized so we (@banderson1618 and @mhallerud) can start batch processing the 84 HUC 8's that make up the state of Idaho as soon as we can so we can have the project finalized by the due date of June 30, 2019.

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac sounds good to me let me know when you have a list of watersheds to run BRAT on and I will work with @mhallerud on them.

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier Just let me know which you want me to work on. I don't have anything of high priority on my plate right now so I can take on more of this as needed.

CoryMosby commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud and @wally-mac I’ve heard back from one of the three regions. They want to review Jordan_1750108. I thought you all would want to know incase you wanted to get started. I should have the other two to you by midweek.

Cory

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@wally-machttps://github.com/wally-mac sounds good to me let me know when you have a list of watersheds to run BRAT on and I will work with @mhallerudhttps://github.com/mhallerud on them.

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mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier @wally-mac Let me know if you want me to take this on.

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud why don't you work on this one I am finishing up some things for the John Day BRAT today and should be able to work on some of the others coming up this week. Here is a list of watersheds we are working on. Remember that we do need the dam census happening as well. @CoryMosby Thank you for the information and we will get working on that.

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud, yes please work on the Jordan HUC 8 which just needs the new risk/management model run. @MatthewMeier can you assist Maggie with this? Thanks!

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac @MatthewMeier I'm getting going on it now

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac @MatthewMeier Just finished up. The output is here as "BRAT_Conservation_Restoration_V3".

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

Thank you @mhallerud, I'll take a look at it later this week and let you know if I have any questions/concerns.

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud and @MatthewMeier @CoryMosby has provided the other two priority watersheds: Little Wood (17040221) which will just require running the new risk/management model and Lower Henry's (1740203) which will require a full run of the BRAT model. I told Cory that we'd have Jordan and Little Wood completed with instructions on what the outputs are trying to say by early next week and have Lower Henry's (1740203) done by end of next week (Jan 25). We can hammer out who does what in today's staff meeting. Thanks!

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac @MatthewMeier Just finished up with Little Wood. The output is here under "17040221_ConservationRestoration_V3". I also uploaded the edited combined dam capacity shapefile under the same folder as "17040221_CombinedCapacity_V3". I'll add the edited combined dam capacity shapefile to the output folder for the Jordan as well.

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac So the Big wood is not on the list right?

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier I'm looking at the Box data for Henry's and it looks like not all the inputs are there. Do you mind sending me a quick list of steps on sourcing and pre-processing the data so I can get going on that?

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud all of the list of steps to acquiring the data can be found here you will need to run VBET as well before you do anything because that isn't done yet. I would do a non edited run which will take a lot less time. This will be good to see how much time it takes to get the non edited VBET outputs. @wally-mac let me know if you would like me to do the vbet part and @mhallerud to gather the other inputs?

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier Thanks!

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier @wally-mac The LANDFIRE website is down. Are there other vegetation/land use data sources that I could try instead?

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier @wally-mac Should I just be doing the perennial network on this one? See below, the perennial network cuts out a large portion of the watershed.

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MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud you can still get to the data just that main website is down. Here is a link to the data just click on the map and it will take you to the visual instructions that are listed on the BRAT webpage. In addition no you will want to still do the full network this is a protocol that we have set up in the lab in doing the entire nhd because it saves on run time for edits in the end. @wally-mac would you agree?

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier Sorry for throwing a ton of questions at you, but I'm on the last step of VBET (actually extracting the valley bottom) and I'm not sure what to put for the following inputs:

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud refer to the following documentation page. Basically you are going to need to measure the general width of the valley bottom for what you would consider the large, medium, and small rivers in the watershed that you are working in. You will enter in 1/2 of those values that you find into the model. Generally I leave the defaults the same but the link I gave to you will explain these parameters if you would like to adjust them. If I do adjust any of the defaults I will adjust the thresholds which deal more in how much of a break in slope will confine these buffers. The goal is to get it to equal what you would determine the valley bottom to be with very limited to no edits which can be a time sink.

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

Yes, I agree with Matt. We want to always run the full network and then we reduce it to the perennial extent after we have generated layer packages. Note: we are going to need to figure out a way to automate (or at least semi-automate) this step of subsetting to the perennial extent. Maggie let's talk about this in more detail.

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@mhallerud https://github.com/mhallerud refer to the following documentation page https://bitbucket.org/jtgilbert/riparian-condition-assessment-tools/wiki/Tool_Documentation/Version_0.1/VBET. Basically you are going to need to measure the general width of the valley bottom for what you would consider the large, medium, and small rivers in the watershed that you are working in. You will enter in 1/2 of those values that you find into the model. Generally I leave the defaults the same but the link I gave to you will explain these parameters if you would like to adjust them. If I do adjust any of the defaults I will adjust the thresholds which deal more in how much of a break in slope will confine these buffers. The goal is to get it to equal what you would determine the valley bottom to be with very limited to no edits which can be a time sink.

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mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac Sounds good, I'll take a look at the code and think about it a bit more this weekend.

@MatthewMeier I have the rest of the data set up, but would you mind just doubling checking my valley bottom? I ran it a few times and am comparing with other watersheds, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm looking for or how much error is acceptable. I uploaded it on Box.

MatthewMeier commented 5 years ago

@mhallerud I took a look and was wondering if I could discuss some of the changes that I would make with you. Are you in the office?

mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@MatthewMeier Does the LANDFIRE_LUCode script from SupportingTools usually work? I'm having issues with it. Also, has anybody created a script to reclassify vegetation or have we been doing it manually every time?

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

I’m not the person to really answer the first question but I think I know the answer to the second and that is no we have not developed a script yet and it’s at this point a manual process.

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mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac The Lower Henry BRAT is done and on Box. I think the last thing to do is just make the layer package for the Little Wood, but let me know if I'm missing anything.

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

Thanks. Yes, we need perennial layer package for each of the three priority watersheds. Let's go over the data together. Do you have time tomorrow to do so?

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@wally-mac https://github.com/wally-mac The Lower Henry BRAT is done and on Box https://usu.app.box.com/folder/64723271328. I think the last thing to do is just make the layer package for the Little Wood, but let me know if I'm missing anything.

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mhallerud commented 5 years ago

@wally-mac Yes, I'll be in the lab tomorrow around 9-12 and 1:30-5:00.

wally-mac commented 5 years ago

Okay, let's meet at around 3:30 PM tomorrow and go over the outputs together. Thanks!

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