Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) to Aid in Sustaining Military Mission and Training
Abstract
This project demonstrates the Automated Geospatial Watershed Assessment (AGWA) tool coupled with the Facilitator Decision Support System (DSS) for scientifically based watershed assessments to address installation managers concerns of land disturbance from military training and testing, flooding, and erosion. Demonstration sites are Pion Canyon Maneuver Site and Fort Carson, Colorado, and Fort Bliss, Texas/New Mexico. AGWA is a publicly available Geographic Information Systems (GIS) interface that uses national data to parameterize, execute, and visualize outputs of two watershed models at multiple temporal and spatial scales over a range of environmental conditions. The Facilitator DSS provides a flexible, easy to use, framework to structure and document installation manager experience, expert knowledge, and AGWA simulation model results to select a preferred management action. Tools within AGWA are the military training disturbance tool to evaluate changes in soil and vegetation cover resulting from training events; the erosion control structure tool to design and place these structures for flood and erosion control; the burn severity tool to evaluate prescribed and wildfire effects on site and downstream; the urban tool to evaluate stormwater flooding and green infrastructure practices; and the climate assessment tool. Two 1.5 to 2-day training sessions were conducted at each installation using hands-on tutorials, presentations, discussion sessions, and surveys. AGWAs embedded hydrologic models (KINEROS2, RHEM, and SWAT) were evaluated via data quality, and calibration/validation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 27, 2019
- Accession Number
- AD1092333
Entities
People
- D. P. Guertin
- David C. Goodrich
- Gerardo Armendariz
- Haiyan Wei
- I. S. Burns
- Lainie R. Levick
- Philip Heilman