{"id":231,"date":"2011-10-17T15:36:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=231"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:05:17","slug":"using-gis-to-determine-stream-sinuosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Using GIS to determine stream sinuosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sinuosity<\/em> is a measure of how much a river (or other linear feature) deviates from being straight. A truly straight river or road has a sinuosity of 1; as the number of meanders increases, sinuosity approaches 0.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a document describing how to determine the sinuosity of linear features years ago. I will update it for ArcGIS 10 as time permits, but the original document, written for ArcView 3.x and ArcGIS 8x\/9x is available <a href=\"http:\/\/forest.mtu.edu\/faculty\/hyslop\/gis\/sinuosity.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinuosity is a measure of how much a river (or other linear feature) deviates from being straight. A truly straight river or road has a sinuosity of 1; as the number of meanders increases, sinuosity approaches 0. I wrote a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=231\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[26,27,19],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","tag-gis","tag-sinuosity","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1056,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions\/1056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}