9.2             Spatial Plots

Spatial Plots can be used to plot spatial behavior of several state or flux variables corresponding to either elements or river segments. It provides flexibility to visualize spatial distribution of any of those variable as a snapshot of time or as an average over a give period of time.

 

Select Element feature or River Feature depending on the plot variable it corresponds to. Input Start Time and Finish Time over which it is desired to obtain average spatial plot of the plot variable. Select Plot Variable: provides option to choose from for the plot variable of interest. TIN shape file or River shape file also need to be browsed as the spatial map is generated based on them. User also needs to browse the model output file corresponding to variable of interest. Note that, model saves the output files in the directory from where input files were fetched in the section 8. Click Generate to begin processing. The routine might take a while for processing the model output file. After successful processing of the model output file, a shapefile named “tempShape.shp” is generated at the qgis home directory.