NHDPlus as a Geospatial Framework for SPARROW Modeling

摘要

Successful water-resource management requires thorough knowledge and understanding of the relations among water-quality contaminant sources and the factors that affect the transport throughout a hydrologic system. Surface-water modeling is a valuable tool that can be applied to help advance and achieve the understanding of these dynamic relations that affect ecological habitat, ecosystems and human health. A variety of approaches for successful environmental assessments can then be constructed when modeling approaches are coupled with detailed spatial connections and data like those provided in the National Hydrography Dataset Plus (NHDPlus).