This tool can be used to insert dams at one or more user-specified points (`dam_pts`), and of a maximum length (`damlength`), within an input digital elevation model (DEM) (`dem`). This tool can be thought of as providing the impoundment feature that is calculated internally during a run of the the impoundment size index (ISI) tool for a set of points of interest. from a (DEM).

## Reference

Lindsay, JB (2015) Modelling the spatial pattern of potential impoundment size from DEMs. Online resource: Whitebox Blog

## See Also

impoundment_size_index, stochastic_depression_analysis

## Function Signature

`def insert_dams(self, dem: Raster, dam_points: Vector, dam_length: float) -> Raster: ...`

## Project Links

WbW Homepage User Manual Support WbW