Benchmark River fields

Descriptions of fields in the benchmark_rivers feature class.

Field
Alias
Description

GOID

Global object identifier

Corresponds to the GOID of the river. For the model to recognize which river is the benchmark river, each benchmark river must have the correct GOID (i.e., the GOID that corresponds to the GOID of the river reach).

BB_ID

Backbone River identifier

An integer identifying the river. Corresponds to the BB_ID of the river in the streams feature class.

FFRID

Free-flowing river identifier

An integer identifying the benchmark river. Each benchmark river must have a unique FFRID value.

Name_Expert

Name of the river.

The name of the benchmark river. The name must be consistent across the same FFRID.

BENCH_SRC

Source of the benchmark river

The source used to designate the river as a benchmark river. This can be the name of a researcher or a publication, a category such as "Expert" or "Publication" etc. The field is used to analyze the results of the benchmarking separately by source name or category.

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