This digital data set, compiled from new 10-meter digital elevation model (DEM) data, represents the physiography of the Willamette Valley, Oregon. This new physiographic data is useful because the improved resolution allows for better visualization of flood and fluvial features in the low lying areas of the Willamette Valley. Many scientist are interested in the Willamette Valley because it is subject to a variety of earthquake hazards, and its water and geologic resources are under pressure from rapid urbanization (see sheets for a brief description). Further, this Open-File report details the techniques used to create these maps (See readme.pdf). It is the author's purpose to publish these techniques and data so others may use this report to generate their own gray scale and/or color shaded-relief maps. All information about the data and methods used to create this report are in the readme.pdf file and this document.

This digital dataset was compiled from newly released U.S. Geological Survey 10-meter digital elevation model (DEM) data, along with stream and transportation coverages previously published on the internet. This report consists of a digital representation of the physiography of the Willamette Valley. Contained in this dataset is: 1) 10-meter DEM data for the entire Willamette Valley; 2) the ARC/INFO grids used to create the color shaded-relief and gray scale shaded-relief images; 3) the necessary data ARC/INFO data to used to plot these data; and 4) several reports detailing the data formats (this docuement) and producers used to create these datasets. The scale of the original 10-meter DEM data should not be violated. Any use of these original data smaller than the intended scale (1:24,000) will not yield improved accuracy.

The databases in this report were compiled in ARC/INFO, a commercial Geographic Information System (Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, California, with version 3.0 of the menu interface ALACARTE (Fitzgibbon and Wentworth, 1991, Fitzgibbon, 1991, Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991). The files are in either GRID (ARC/INFO raster data) format or COVERAGE (ARC/ INFO vector data) format. Coverages are stored in uncompressed ARC export format (ARC/INFO version 8.0.2). ARC/INFO export files (files with the .e00 extension) can be converted into ARC/ INFO coverages in ARC/INFO (see below) and can be read by some other Geographic Information Systems, such as MapInfo via ArcLink and ESRI's ArcView (version 1.0 for Windows 3.1 to 3.11 is available for free from ESRI's web site: http://www.esri.com). The digital compilation was done in version 8.0.2 of ARC/INFO with version 3.0 of the menu interface ALACARTE (Fitzgibbon and Wentworth, 1991, Fitzgibbon, 1991, Wentworth and Fitzgibbon, 1991). Custom AMLs were written to compile the 10-meter DEM data from 7.5-minute quadrangles into large composite datasets. The data was compiled as ARC/INFO grids and then converted to decimeter integer grids. This procedure greatly reduces the file sizes without downgrading the data quality. Stream coverages were merged with the grids used to create the color shaded-relief grid composite. Further details on the techniques used to generate these maps are available in the readme file of this report.

The DLG described in this document has been produced for use in a statewide base map series for the State of Texas. This metadata document describes a Hypsography digital line graph (DGL-3) file produced by Titan Systems Corp. of Portland, OR for the Texas Strategic Mapping Program (StratMap). StratMap is administered by the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) and managed by its Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS) division. StratMap was created to produce seven digital base map layers for Texas. StratMap is supported by contributions from the federal government, the State of Texas, and local and regional organizations. The DLG products produced for StratMap and the Texas Water Development Board under the Texas StratMap Program reside in the public domain. As described by USGS's Standards for Digital Line Graphs, a digital line graph is a vector file of large-scale data primarily from 1:24,000 scale USGS topographic quadrangles.

This digital dataset was compiled from newly released U.S. Geological Survey 10-meter digital elevation model (DEM) data, along with stream and transportation coverages previously published on the internet. This report consists of a digital representation of the physiography of the Willamette Valley. Contained in this dataset is: 1) 10-meter DEM data for the entire Willamette Valley; 2) the ARC/INFO grids used to create the color shaded-relief and gray scale shaded-relief images; 3) the necessary data ARC/INFO data to used to plot these data; and 4) several reports detailing the data formats (this docuement) and producers used to create these datasets. The scale of the original 10-meter DEM data should not be violated. Any use of these original data smaller than the intended scale (1:24,000) will not yield improved accuracy.

This is a dataset download, not a document. The Open button will start the download.Digital Elevation Model. 10m pixels. Elevation values in feet. Elevation data assembled from merged 7.5-minute DEM blocks (10- by 10-m data spacing).