RiverTools 3.0 Key Features
General Features
Runs on Windows, Mac & Sun
Friendly, point-and-click interface
Can use IDL as script language
User extendable with plug-ins
Affordable pricing
Great teaching & research tool
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Visualization Tools
Color Shaded Relief
3D Surface Plots (mesh, lego)
River Network Maps
Contour Plots (line or filled)
Mosaicking / Subsetting Tools
Multi-Layer Plots & more
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Derived Grids
Contributing area (D8, D-inf, MF)
Channel slope (D8, D-inf, MF)
Main channel length
Plan, profile, tangential curvature
Relief & Horton-Strahler order
New Grid Calculator
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Flow Grid Extraction
D8 & D-Infinity flow grid methods
New Mass Flux method for areas
Multiple flat-resolution methods
Export river to shapefile w/ attrib.
Compute over 20 river attributes
Graphical outlet selection
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Watershed Delineation
Basin or subbasin boundaries
Watershed segmentation
Analyze basins by Horton order
Export boundaries to Shapefiles
General tools for feature masks
Shape analysis tools
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Ellipsoids & Map Projections
52 Earth ellipsoid models
17 Map Projections
Accounts for latitude-dependence
of all areas, lengths, slopes
Uses Geographic or UTM data
Ellipsoids for other planets
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Extracting Information
Hypsometric (area-altitude) curves
Area-distance curves
Generalized Horton Plots
X-Y plots of measurements
Longitudinal Profile Data
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DEM File Formats
USGS SDTS & Standard ASCII
SRTM, MOLA, ENVI, GRD98
DTED, netCDF, NOAA/NOS EEZ
GeoTIFF, ARC Binary & ASCII
Gridded or XYZ ASCII & more
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Vector File Formats
Overlay in multi-layer plots
Export RiverTools Vectors (RTV)
ARC Shapefiles (read/write/view)
DLGs (Digital Line Graphs)
(as SDTS Topol. Vector Profile)
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Sample Data CD-ROM
Many sample data sets including:
Grand Canyon & Other Natl. Parks
MOLA Topography of Mars
Arctic Ocean Bathymetry (IBCAO)
GTOPO30 Mosaic for Europe
KY River Mosaic (30m w/ DLGs)
LIDAR data & much more
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Help System
Context-Sensitive Help Buttons
Illustrated, Hypertext Tutorials
Guide to DEM Data Formats
Complete User's Guide online
Printed User's Guide
Hypertext Glossary
RiverTools Command Guide
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Interactive Tools
Vector Zoom (contours/flow lines)
Value Zoom (view/edit grid values)
Surface Zoom (color wire mesh)
Shaded Relief Zoom
Line & Longitudinal Profiles
Scale bar and color legend
Reach Info tool, and many more
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