Geomorphometry for Streams and Floodplains in the Chesapeake and Delaware Watersheds

Geomorphometry for Streams and Floodplains in the Chesapeake and Delaware Watersheds was generated as part of the project Quantifying Floodplain Ecological Processes and Ecosystem Services in the Delaware River Watershed funded through the William Penn Foundation's Delaware Watershed Research fund. This dataset contains geomorphometry for streams and floodplains in the Chesapeake and Delaware River watersheds. Geomorphometry is a quantitative representation of landscape surface form (e.g., channel width and depth) obtained from digital elevation models (DEMs). The dataset contains geomorphometry derived from running 3-m DEMs through the Floodplain and Channel Evaluation Tool (FACET) version 0.1.0. FACET generates shapefiles and rasters of the stream network, cross sections, streambank point locations, floodplain extent, height above nearest drainage (HAND), and reach-scale summaries of bank height, channel width, floodplain width, and a suite of other metrics outlined in the data dictionary. These data were generated to aid in modeling the amount of sediment and nutrients trapped on floodplains or eroded from streambanks in the Chesapeake and Delaware River watersheds.