This site provides the 10m Height Above Nearest Drainage (HAND) dataset, version 0.1, for the 331 HUC6 units in conterminous U.S. (CONUS), excluding the five units of the great lakes. A newer version v0.2 is now available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
${HUCID}-wbd.shp HUC unit boundary shape file, extracted from USGS WBD
${HUCID}-wbdbuf.shp HUC unit boundary shape file, extracted from USGS WBD (buffered)
${HUCID}-flows.shp Flowline shape file, extracted from NHDPlus V21
${HUCID}-inlets0.shp Inlets point shape file in the HUC unit. Native projection
${HUCID}-inlets.shp Inlets point shape file in the HUC unit. EPSG:4269
${HUCID}-weights.tif Weight grid of the rasterized inlet points
${HUCID}.tif Clipped HUC unit DEM from USGS 3DEP 10m elevation dataset (buffered)
${HUCID}fel.tif Pit-removed DEM; output of TauDEM pitremove
${HUCID}p.tif D8 flow direction raster; output of TauDEM d8flowdir
${HUCID}sd8.tif D8 slope raster; output of TauDEM d8flowdir
${HUCID}ang.tif Dinfinity flow direction raster; output of TauDEM dinfflowdir
${HUCID}slp.tif Dinfinity slope raster; output of TauDEM dinfflowdir
${HUCID}ssa.tif Contributing area raster; output of TauDEM aread8
${HUCID}src.tif Stream grid; output of TauDEM threshold (threshold=1)
${HUCID}dd.tif Bufferred HAND raster; output of TauDEM dinfdistdown
${HUCID}hand.tif HAND raster, buffer removed, final result
HAND is published as OSGeo Tile Map Service (TMS, https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Tile_Map_Service_Specification) and can be rendered at a client as an XYZ layer. Note that TMS and XYZ standards differ in only one thing: Y tile coordinate. The conversion is simple: y' = 2^z - y - 1 (or in C, y = 1 << z - y - 1), where z is the zoom level (2^z is the total number of tiles at this zoom level).
If you want the CONUS view, configure the map layer as below:
{
"type": "XYZ",
"extent": [-14392000, 2436200, -7279500, 6594375],
"url": "https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/nfiedata/TMS/CONUS-mercator/{z}/{x}/{-y}.png",
"projection": "EPSG:3857",
"minZoom": 5,
"maxZoom": 10
}
If you want to download HAND of a HUC6 unit, use the url pattern as below (replace {huc6code} with the actual code):
https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/nfiedata/HAND/{huc6code}/{huc6code}hand.tif
If you want to visualize a particular HUC6 HAND, use the url pattern as below (replace {huc6code} with the actual code):
https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/nfiedata/TMS/HUC6-mercator/{huc6code}/openlayers.html
If you need to obtain TMS definition of a HUC6 HAND, use the url pattern as below (replace {huc6code} with the actual code):
https://web.corral.tacc.utexas.edu/nfiedata/TMS/HUC6-mercator/{huc6code}/tilemapresource.xml
This resource is shared under the Creative Commons Attribution CC BY, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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