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The flood plain delineation uses interpolation from the scatter set created  by the hydraulic model solution, but the interpolation is not very accurate with  such a sparse data set (it often takes 6-8 points to interpolate and with such a  sparse data set these six or eight points could cover a long distance within the  reach and result in a poor interpolation value). The Interpolate Water Surface Elevations command of the River Tools menu will interpolate for either the 1D-Hydraulic  Centerline, or 1D-Hydraulic Cross-sections command new scatter points either at  the vertices of the feature arcs (centerline or cross sections) or at a  specified distance along the arcs.
The flood plain delineation uses interpolation from the scatter set created  by the hydraulic model solution, but the interpolation is not very accurate with  such a sparse dataset (it often takes 6-8 points to interpolate and with such a  sparse dataset these six or eight points could cover a long distance within the  reach and result in a poor interpolation value). The '''Interpolate Water Surface Elevations''' command of the ''River Tools'' menu will interpolate for either the '''1D-Hydraulic  Centerline''', or '''1D-Hydraulic Cross-sections''' command new scatter points either at  the vertices of the feature arcs (centerline or cross sections) or at a  specified distance along the arcs.


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Revision as of 20:26, 27 February 2013

After running a 1D Hydraulic model like HEC-RAS, the result is a water surface elevation (or hydrograph for a dynamic solution) at the cross section as indicated by the red circles in the river section shown in the figure below.

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The flood plain delineation uses interpolation from the scatter set created by the hydraulic model solution, but the interpolation is not very accurate with such a sparse dataset (it often takes 6-8 points to interpolate and with such a sparse dataset these six or eight points could cover a long distance within the reach and result in a poor interpolation value). The Interpolate Water Surface Elevations command of the River Tools menu will interpolate for either the 1D-Hydraulic Centerline, or 1D-Hydraulic Cross-sections command new scatter points either at the vertices of the feature arcs (centerline or cross sections) or at a specified distance along the arcs.

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Along cross sections the same value is used at every point along the cross section and along the centerline linearly interpolation is used between consecutive cross sections (this would be consistent with the assumption of a 1D hydraulic model that the water surface is linear between cross sections - if not more detail to the model should be added).

You specify either the centerline or the cross-sections by making it the active coverage in the Project Explorer prior to choosing this command. The following figure shows the result of interpolating along both the cross sections and the centerline of the model shown above.

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