Riverscapes Consortium

Tools

Contributors to the RC have been prolific in developing and vetting the science and theoretical underpinnings essential to understanding and explaining how riverscapes work and are organized across a range of nested hierarchical spatial scales. We have also committed to building open-source algorithms tools to make it easier for researchers, professionals, practitioners and students to apply those concepts to their own riverscapes and disseminate FAIR tools and outputs from those tools.

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Production-Grade Network-Scale Tools
RC Open Source
Tools on Github
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Tool Standards

Riverscapes Compliant

Tools are designated as “riverscapes-compliant” when they meet the following criteria:

Riverscapes Compliant Tools

All tools ranked as RC-Compliant are based on peer-reviewed methods and have been additionally vetted by our RS Science Committee. When RC developers have developed new methods themselves, the RC encourages peer vetting, publication and dissemination in the peer-reviewed literature. The RC also make sure to have a well documented website (typically with a URL that will take the form of sometool.riverscapes.net). For most users, the online help documentation and using the tool ‘as is’ is as far as they need to take it. However, for those so inclined, all of the underlying source-code for these tools, models and algorithms are available in their own GitHub repository at github.com/Riverscapes. Note that, the tools.riverscapes.net/sometool convention is used for our predominantly production-grade tools that share the Riverscapes Commons Library.

  Resolution Extent Language Interface Status
Exploratory Tools for Visualizing Riverscapes Projects          
WebRAVE Any Any react, javascript & Commercial Grade
QRAVE Any Any Python Professional-Grade
ArcRAVE Any Any C# Professional-Grade
Reach Scale Tools          
GCD - Geomorphic Change Detection Cell Reach C# , , Professional-Grade for & ;
Production-Grade for CLI
GUT - Geomorphic Unit Toolkit Cell Reach Python , Research-Grade
FHM - Fish Habitat Model Cell Reach C#/C++ Operational-Grade
Network Scale Tools          
Riverscapes Context - RS_Context 1.2.2 Reach Network Python Production-Grade
Channel Area Tool 1.1.1 Reach Network Python Production-Grade
TauDEM - Terrain Analysis Using Digital Elevation Models - TauDEM 1.0.2 Reach Network Python Production-Grade
VBET - Valley Bottom Extraction Tool - VBET 0.5.1 Beta Reach Network Python Production-Grade
BRAT - Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool - sqlBRAT 4.3.2 Reach Network Python Production-Grade
pyBRAT - Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool - pyBRAT 3.1.0 Reach Network Python Operational-Grade
RCAT - Riparian Condition Assessment Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
GNAT - Geomorphic Network Assessment Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Legacy CHaMP Tools          
CHaMP Topo Processing Tools Reach Reach Python Production-Grade
CHaMP Topo Metrics Reach Network Python Production-Grade

Tools Pending Riverscapes Compliance

Tools are designated as “pending riverscapes-compliance when the RS Science Committee has accepted the tool for consideration and they meet the following criteria:

  • Tool Status of Resarch-Grade or higher
  • Developer has indicated intent to modify code to produce riverscapes projects as output of all analyses - Moving up to Operational-Grade
  • Developer has indicated intent to add Project Type registration with program.xml in Program Repo
  Resolution Extent Language Interface Status
Tools for doing your own Riverscapes Analyses          
Riverscape Studio - for QGIS (QRiS) Any Riverscape Python Professional-Grade
Reach Scale Tools          
Fluvial Coridor Toolbox Cell Reach Python , Operational-Grade
MoRPHED - Model of Riverine Physical Habitat & Ecogeomorphic Dynamics Cell Reach C++ Research-Grade
NREI - Net Rate of Energy Intake Cell Reach R Research-Grade
RIM - Riverscapes Inundation Mapper Tool Cell Reach Python Research-Grade
TAT - Topographic Analyis Toolkit Cell Reach Python Operational-Grade
ToPCAT - Topographic Point Cloud Analysis Toolkit Cell Reach C++ Research-Grade
Network Scale Tools          
CASCADE Toolbox Reach Network Matlab Opperational-Grade
Catchment Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Conductivity Tools Reach Network Python Research-Grade
GNAT - Geomorphic Network Assessment Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Grain Size Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Network Profiler Tool Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Solar Stream Tools Reach Network Python Research-Grade
Tributary Impact Reach Network Python Proof of Concept
WRAT - Wood Restoration Assessment Tool Reach Network Python Proof of Concept
Catchment Scale Tools          
Connectivity Index Cell Catchment Python Research-Grade
SedInConnect Cell Catchment Python Operational-Grade
Utilities          
PointCloud2Raster Point Reach C++ Proof of Concept
PySESA - Spatially Explicit Spectral Analysis Point Reach Python Research-Grade
RasterMan Cell Catchment C++ Research-Grade
Legacy CHaMP Tools          
CTT - CHaMP Transformation Tool Cell Reach C# Operational-Grade
CHaMP Topo Processing Tools Reach Reach Python Operational-Grade
CHaMP Workbench Any Any C# Professional-Grade
CHaMP Hydraylic-Modelling Delft3D Automation cell Reach R/C Research-Grade

Model Discrimination

We discriminate our tools based on their interface and tool grade.

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Tool Discrimination
Tool Grade

We classify the grade of our tools according to their growth from innovative research ideas, through to operational tools in development that (with a little love and patience) can be run by someone other than the developer, on through to more broadly deployable professional tools that are robust and usable by any user in very different settings.