Released:October2013

Modified:

Retrieving bathymetry data of the Oceans

and its processing for iRIC calculation

Takaaki ABE
Division of River Engineering Research, CERI
Training Course for iRIC
Sep.19(Thu) Nays2D Flood
GEBCOTop

Clickthelinktobathymetrydata

http://www.gebco.net/ 2
Griddedbathymetrydatatoppage

Clickthelinktodownloadpage

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BODCtoppage

FordownloadingGEBCOdata,youneedtocreateanaccount,
register,andlogintotheaccounthomepage 4
Registration

Fillintheformsandcreateyouraccount

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Linktobathymetrydata

Afterregisteringandloggingin,link
buttontodownloadpageappears

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GEBCOgriddedbathymetrydatasets

Inthedownloadpage,youcan
selectyourregionofinterest
intheinteractivemaplike
showninthisfigure,however,
severalstepsareneededfor
accessingGEBCOdata.

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Downloadingworldoceandata

Firstly,youmustdownloadthe
Leavevaluesandcharactersunchanged wholedata,namely,
GEBCO_08grid(30arcsecond
interval).

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Downloadingfreesoftware

Secondly,forvisualizationof
GEBCOdata,asoftware
providedinthesamepageis
needed.Downloadlinkisjust
abovetheDownloadData
button.

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LinktoGEBCOGriddisplaysoftware
isatthebottomofthedownload
page.

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GridViewerdownload

Unzipthedownloadedsoftwarefileandputthe
gebco_08.ncfileinthesamedirectoryafterunzipping
gebco_08.zip(1.1GBfileyouvejustdownloaded)file.
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Executetheviewer

ExecutetheGridViewer.exe

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Regionsettings

Inputtheregionofinterest

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AcehBODCdata

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Dataexport

ExportthisdataforQGIS
processing
ClickGriddedData

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Exportoptions

SelectESRIrasterformat
Inputnameasaceh.asc

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tpo filepreparationforELIMOsolver(optional)

Importedtpo file
inELIMOsolver

TheELIMOsolverneedslongitudeandlatitudedataintpo file.Open
aceh.asc inyourtexteditor(orExcel),deletetheheaderinformationin
thefile(14linesfromthetop),countthenumberofdatapoints,addit
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inthefirstlineandsaveastpo filewith.tpo extensionlikeaceh.tpo
Openrasterlayer Ifyouaregoingtouseothersolvers,
followingproceduresareneeded.

ClickAddRasterLayer
andselectaceh.ascfile

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DefineCRS

DefinetheCRS
(CoordinateReference
System)asWGS84
(EPSG:4326orID:3452)

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Rasterlayeradded

Greysquareregionwill
appear
InLayerswindowright
clicktheaceh layer
SelectProperties

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Setcolormap

SetColormapoftheElevation
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Convertrastertovector

Inthemenubar,clickRaster>Conversion>
Polygonize (Rastertovector)
Inputfilenameforpolygons
ClickOK

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Addvectorlayer

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SpecifyCRS

Again,definetheCRS
(CoordinateReference
System)asWGS84
(EPSG:4326orID:3452)
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SavevectorlayerasUTM
Inputthenameforoutput
SelectSelectedCRS
BrowseCRSandhere,youmust
chooseWGS84/UTMzone46N

Newvectorlayerisadded
Rightclickthelayername
andclickSaveas...

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Addvectorlayer
Addvectorlayer
inrectangularcoordinatessystem

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Convertpolygontopointdata

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Addgeometrycolumns
Inthemenubar,clickVector>
GeometryTools>Export/Add
geometrycolumns
SelectInputvectorlayer
InputOutputshapefile name
ClickOK

NOTE:Itmaytakeseveralminutes

ClickOKandaddthenewlayer

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Geometrycolumntable
Newvectorlayerisadded
Rightclickthelayernameandclick
Openattributetable
Geometrycolumnsareadded

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Copyattributetable

Selectalllinesandcopythemto
clipboard

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ConverttoX[m],Y[m],Z[m]data
Deletethe1stcolumnand
OpenExcelandpaste changerowpositionslikebelow
theclipboarddata

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tpo fileexport

Inputthenumberof
linesinthe1stline

Saveasaceh.tpoandselect
Text(tabdelimited)(*.txt)

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Tpo fileimporttoiRIC preprocessor

OpeniRIC softwareand
importaceh.tpofile

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End.

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