Catchment delineation — watershed • terra

delineate the area covered by a catchment from a SpatRaster with flow direction and a pour-point (catchment outlet).

# S4 method for class 'SpatRaster'
watershed(x, pourpoint, filename="",...)

Arguments

x: SpatRaster with flow direction. See terrain.
pourpoint: matrix or SpatVector with the pour point location
filename: character. Output filename
...: additional arguments for writing files as in writeRaster

Value

SpatRaster

Author

Ezio Crestaz, Emanuele Cordano, Roman Seliger

Examples

elev <- rast(system.file('ex/elev_vinschgau.tif', package="terra"))
flowdir <- terrain(elev, "flowdir")
## pour point at Naturns 
pp <- cbind(653358.3, 5168222)
w <- watershed(flowdir, pp)