WS Forestry Abbreviation

Watershed

Land area from which water drains to a particular body of water. All the land area that drains into a particular body of water. Watershed a line on a surface f .x; y/, typically an image, which divides it into “catchment areas.” Within a catchment area, lines of descent all connect to the same mini-mum point. The line of steepest ascent from a saddle point to a maximum is a watershed. Watersheds often correspond to ridges.