Development and Application of the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment Tool

CONTENTS Introduction __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 128 Overview of the AGWA Tool ____________________________________________________________________________ 129 Hydrologic Models ________________________________________________________________________________________ 132 KINEROS2 ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 132 SWAT __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 135 Data Inputs and Parameter Estimation ___________________________________________ 138 Watershed Discretization ________________________________________________________________ 138 Parameter Estimation ______________________________________________________________________ 139 Rainfall Input___________________________________________________________________________________________ 139 Examples of AGWA Applications _________________________________________________________________ 140 Description of the Study Area and Data Sources _____________________ 141 Using AGWA for Land-Cover Change Analysis ______________________ 143 Introduction ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 143 Methods ______________________________________________________________________________________________________ 143 Results _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 144 Discussion _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 148 Using AGWA for Land-Use Planning _____________________________________________ 148 Introduction ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 148 Methods _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 149 Results _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 150 Discussion _________________________________________________________________________________________________ 154 Summary and Conclusions _________________________________________________________________________________ 155 Acknowledgments _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ 156 References _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 156