Calculating distances to points on a stream

AndrewHeise

Hi, Everyone

I am trying to calculate the distances to multiple points on a stream from a single point, 'a well'. What I am trying to do is input well locations and stream data to calculate the distances from a well to multiple, or at least one, point on a stream. There are over 1000 wells and many streams.  This is for my graduate thesis. The image below shows 3 different ways to do it. I'm looking at the second, inverse distance. I am thinking Web Squared would be too difficult for me. Does any know any tutorials that can teach me how to do stuff like this?

Figure Credit: Water Resources Research - 2019 - Zipper - Rapid and Accurate Estimates of Streamflow Depletion Caused by Groundwater Pumping Using Analytical Depletion Functions

HuubZwart

Once you have the points from the streams Near will help you get the correct distances to the wells. Creating so many points is a bit tricky. You could use create point features along a line but this isn't scalable it seems. If you're into Python it shouldn't be too hard to loop through each line feature and create point features in a a new featureclass along the vertices. That will definitely help if you wanna have a go at the web squared method.