Surface Water Storage

This plugin can help the user create a pre-design for a reservoir or study water storage in large lakes, for example.

Author = João Vitor Pimenta
Email = [email protected]

Technologies

The following technologies were used in processing the algorithms of this plugin:
QGIS
GDAL
Numpy
Scipy
Plotly

Installation

With QGIS open, follow these steps: plugins -> manage and install plugins -> install from ZIP Then select the ZIP containing this plugin -> install plugin
or place this plugin in the folder corresponding to plugins installed in QGIS, normally found in the path: C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\QGIS\QGIS3\profiles\default\python\plugins\

Tools

This plugin offers 2 tools to help with the study of a surface water storage, are they:

Create a inundation area

This tool create a vectorized inundation area from a DEM, a area and from a parameter provided by the user, which could be elevation, height, area or volume

Inputs:
DEM - Digital Elevation Model with altimetry related to the area to be analyzed
Area - Vector polygon that is the area to be analyzed Parameter - Parameter of the Area-Volume-Elevation curve used to find the elevation that the water reaches and return the other parameters of the curve to the user
Parameter Value - The value of the chosen parameter, in meters, meters squared or meters cubed
Vertical step - The differencial in elevation for calculating the Area-Volume-Elevation curve (the smaller the value, the more accurate and slow the algorithm will be)

Output:
Inundation area - The area flooded by elevation as a function of the parameter

Create a graph

This tool creates an area x elevation x capacity graph, widely used to analyze how elevation relates to area and storable volume in topography, it also generates area, elevation and capacity data as a .csv file

Inputs:
DEM - Digital Elevation Model with altimetry related to the area to be analyzed
Area - Vector polygon that is the area to be analyzed Vertical step - The difference in elevation for calculating the Area-Volume-Elevation curve (the smaller the value, the more accurate and slow the algorithm will be)

Output:
Data - The data of the points used to form the area-elevation-volume graph, in .csv
Graph - The area-elevation-volume graph for the area and using the DEM data

Example of use

A dam was designed at the beginning of the Sapucaí River hydrographic basin to contain a flood of 1000 m3/s for 7 days, (604800000 cubic meters of water).
For this, the drainage area of ​​the dam was used, the area inundated by 604800000 cubic meters of water was calculated, then the Area x Volume x Elevation graph was calculated and the generated data was verified. The Area x Volume x Elevation information can be used in several ways to check the operation of the dam.

The sequence of images represents:
1: Dam drainage area and DEM without sinks
2: Inputs for the "Inundation area" algorithm
3: Flooded area generated by the algorithm
4: Attribute table with information about the flooded area
5: Inputs for the "Area-Volume-Elevation graph" algorithm
6: Graph generated by the algorithm
7: Data generated by the algorithm

Recommendations

All layers must be in a CRS that uses meters and the DEM needs to be hydrologically consistent (no sinks)

Acknowledgment

Special thanks to the authors of all the technologies used in this plugin and who made it possible, to my parents and friends, to my teachers, and to the giants who, by standing on their shoulders, allowed me to see further

Contributing

This software readily accepts modifications and optimizations, as long as they make sense for proper functioning and user comfort

License

GNU General Public License, version 3