Arc Hydro DEM Reconditioning: Stream lines not buring in!

Question

Using Arc Hydro DEM Reconditioning to burn stream lines in to DEM....runs fine says it completed with no problems but stream lines aren't burnt in.  It will burn my culvert lines in but not my stream lines.  I enter everything the same for burning culverts vs. streams but it won't burn streams!  HELP!!  Ready to pull my hair out!! Using arc gis 10.3 and hydro tools 2.0.

curtvprice · Answer

Dan, https://community.esri.com/community/gis/solutions/arc-hydro?sr=search&searchId=d5840ab0-d150-4992-9d4f-6508c20f4c8e&searchIndex=1‌ tools are way more sophisticated - they include a process called AGREE which does much better flow conditioning than what you can do with a simple raster subtraction with the Con tool. Sharing this over there.

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

to burn a dem, you have to sink the streams into the terrain.  Subtraction can be accomplished using a Con statement or better still... when you convert your streams, you can reclass nodata to zero and where your streams are to some depth (as suggested above).  A raster calculator subtraction will finish the burning or you can use the Minus tool in the spatial analyst.

AshleyHitt1 · Answer

Thanks for answering my question so quickly Dan, much appreciated.  Unfortunately I'm still an Arc GIS novice and I'm not quite sure how to accomplish your suggestion.   I want to keep the original DEM at the same elevation throughout.  End result being a hydo-conditioned DEM.