How to Create 3D River Basin Maps (and Why You Should)

In this video, you will learn how to use HydroSHEDS data, which is a high-resolution global dataset of hydrographic features, such as river networks, watersheds, and drainage basins to create a 3D elevation and river basin map of Poland, a country in Central Europe with diverse landscapes and hydrology.

Chapters

0:00 Intro
00:43 Packages
03:07 Turn off spherical geometry
03:22 Poland boundaries
04:50 Download rivers
06:06 Unzip rivers
08:19 Query
10:36 Load rivers
11:14 Plot rivers
11:33 Overlay Poland
12:28 Get river basins
16:44 Clip rivers with basins
17:59 Assign color palette to rivers
23:05 Assign color palette to basins
25:12 Assign river width
28:59 Digital elevation model
30:51 Render scene
40:43 Render object
45:41 Looking ahead

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