Since each watershed or basin is unique, there have been numerous studies that have investigated the morphometric characteristics of watersheds and basins (Aadil Hamid, 2013 Khare, 2014 Altıparmak and Türkoğlu, 2018 Wilson, 2018 Üzülmez, 2019).
While watershed delineation can be obtained through the use of automated methods with the availability of digital elevation models (DEM) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) tools, most of the morphometric parameters still have to be calculated manually (Benda et al., 2007 Vinet and Zhedanov, 2011 Omran et al., 2016 Safa Ahmed Abd_Elgader, 2016 Shen et al., 2016 Wilson, 2018 Merwade, 2019 Safanelli et al., 2020). The processing of DEM to delineate watersheds is referred to as terrain pre-processing and extracting the morphometric characteristics of the watershed and streams using terrain pre-processing is a time-consuming process. Morphometric analysis of a basin or watershed describes the physical characteristics of the watershed, which are useful for environmental studies, such as in the areas of land use planning, terrain elevation, soil conservation and soil erosion (Ingewar et al., 2017).
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