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- HY_Features HydroFeature package
| Definitionskos:definition | The HY_HydroLocation feature type (Figure 35) conceptualizes the idea that a hydro nexus can be realized by practically any feature of interest. The hydro nexus concept is used to define the hydrologic determination of a catchment but, like the catchment concept, does not have inherent realization(s). Any hydrologically significant feature that can be identified as (said to be) the outlet of a catchment may realize the hydro nexus. Typically, this will be a permanent, stable location that is fixed and/or referenced by coordinates. Landmarks such as confluences, points corresponding to vertical sections, or the position of a monitoring station on a river are typical realizations of the hydro nexus. Other kinds of hydro nexus realizations that don't carry normal surface water characteristics as defined in this standard, e.g. a spring where groundwater enters the surface, an arbitrary point projected onto the surface, or a nexus that collects many disjoint locations may use or specialize the general HY_HydroLocation type. Topologically, the HY_HydroLocation should be understood to be the boundary of the corresponding catchment, and always of lower topological dimension than the catchment. Even though the topological realization of a hydro nexus is typically as a node between catchment edges, a nexus realization may also have any geometric representation, including a single point. In many cases, HY_HydroLocations are known but corresponding catchments and hydro nexuses are not defined. For example, stream gages that are part of a catchment dataset whose hydro nexus features are realized by confluences. Both the stream gages and confluences are HY_HydroLocations, but the stream gages’ hydro nexus features are not defined. Using this concept, HY_HydroLocation is expected to be used to link between datasets that have catchments delineated for different HY_HydroLocations. HY_HydroLocation carries two attributes: shape and hydroLocationType. It has referencedPosition and realizedNexus associations implying the hydro-complex feature collection. |
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| Object Typetype | http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Class |
| http://www.opengis.net/def/metamodel/FeatureType | |
| hasProfilehasProfile | https://www.opengis.net/def/schema/hy_features/hyf/HY_HydroLocation?_profile=conceptscheme |
| seeAlsoseeAlso | https://www.opengis.net/def/schema/hy_features/hyf/HY_HydroLocation?_profile=alt |
| Status of item in register or collectionstatus | experimental |
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| has PropertyhasProperty | hasGeometry |
| has geometry | |
| hydroLocationType | |
| realizedNexus | |
| referencedPosition |