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Floodplain Geomorphons for the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont


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Created: Aug 13, 2025 at 3:13 p.m. (UTC)
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Abstract

This dataset contains floodplain geomorphons raster layers, developed from DEMs, for the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont in the northeastern United States. In these layers, we used geomorphons to identify meso-scale topographic units within the 500-year floodplains of all reaches in the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont. Geomorphons were identified for the extent of the 500-year floodplain for all reaches in each Hydrologic Unit Code-12 (HUC-12) subwatershed. The geomorphon approach identifies topographic units as one of 10 classes of geomorphons—a classification system for landforms based on generalized 3D shape. The file name for this layer begins with four digits corresponding to the last four digits of the reach’s HUC-12 and ends with “geomorphons_clean.tif”. A second, alternate layer for each HUC-12 was created by consolidating the original 10 classes into three classes (flat, convex, and concave features), providing a simpler way of visualizing floodplain topographic patterns relevant for routing water across the surface. The main channel of the reach was also masked out of the alternate, 3-class version of the layer. The file name for the 3-class layer with the channel masked out begins with the four digits corresponding to the last four digits of the HUC-12 subwatershed code and ends with “geomorphons_mask3cls.tif”. The data are grouped into folders by HUC-8 subbasin.

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Coverage

Spatial

Coordinate System/Geographic Projection:
WGS 84 EPSG:4326
Coordinate Units:
Decimal degrees
North Latitude
45.0134°
East Longitude
-72.1731°
South Latitude
43.2411°
West Longitude
-73.4541°

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Data Services

The following web services are available for data contained in this resource. Geospatial Feature and Raster data are made available via Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services. The provided links can be copied and pasted into GIS software to access these data. Multidimensional NetCDF data are made available via a THREDDS Data Server using remote data access protocols such as OPeNDAP. Other data services may be made available in the future to support additional data types.

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Funding Agencies

This resource was created using funding from the following sources:
Agency Name Award Title Award Number
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Cooperative Institute for Research to Operations in Hydrology

How to Cite

Kabis, S., J. Scamardo, R. Diehl, K. L. Underwood, B. Wemple, S. Lawson (2025). Floodplain Geomorphons for the Lake Champlain Basin of Vermont, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/d8faac86869e4a50a1ee1ff1423ce3bb

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