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Soils Map 
Satellite Data 
Digital Elevation Model 
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Digitization 
Rasterization 
of Soil Polygons 
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Estimation of Computation of 
Leaf Area Index Gradient Magnitude 
and Direction Files 
Assignment of 
Soil Water Capacity 
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Registration 
Overlay 
Production of 
Land Unit 
Partition 
Statistical 
Summarization 
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Distributed Parameter File 
Land Unit SWC LAI Elevation Aspect Slope 
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MTCLIM 
FOREST-BGC 
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Meteorological File 
Numerical Output 
Graphical Output 
Tabular Listing 
Temporal Plots 
Statistical Summary 
Image Files 
Figure 1: 
Flow diagram of RESSYS tracking information from raw imagery 
and maps, through parameter files and simulation runs.