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Georeferencing hard copy or pdf maps

Using RAS Mapper as a GIS tool Part 3: Georeferencing hard copy or pdf maps Have you ever received your background data in hard copy or pdf format and wanted to view it in its georeferenced location? For this final topic in our three-part series on using RAS Mapper as a GIS tool, we’ll cover […]

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Shifting web imagery with world files for HEC-RAS

Using RAS Mapper as a GIS tool Part 2: Shifting Web Imagery with World Files Have you ever tried pulling web imagery into RAS Mapper only to find that it doesn’t line up with your existing shape files, terrain surfaces, or other geospatial data?  In this second of a three-part series on using RAS Mapper […]

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Creating your mesh in RAS 2D

Your computational mesh is what will allow you to do 2D modeling in HEC-RAS.  Think of a mesh as a net that you drape over your terrain.  The continuous properties of the “infinite” terrain are then discretized onto the mesh so that computations can be made over a finite domain.  Here in the geometry editor, […]

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