Use the list below to discover and learn more about tools related to riverscapes health. Use the filters to find tools that comply with the Riverscapes Consortium's tool standards, and that meet the tool grade that you are looking for.

Some of the tools are developed by the Riverscapes Consortium's own developers and these tools also have documentation on this website. Other tools listed below were developed by partners and collaborators.

Learn more about: tool grades and riverscapes standards and compliance.

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Riverscapes Context

Discovers and compiles together disparate datasets that are helpful for contextualizing riverscape h...See More

Channel Area

The Channel Area Tool is a simple tool for generating polygons representing the spatial extent of th...See More

TauDEM

The Terrain Anlysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM) is a suite of tools developed by David T...See More

VBET

The Valley Bottom Extraction Tool (VBET) is a tool used to identify the valley bottom of a riverscap...See More

Confinement

Quantifies the amount that reaches are confined by valley margins.

Riparian Condition Assessment Tool

BRAT

The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) is a tool used to assess the potential for beaver rest...See More

GCD

The Geomorphic Change Detection, GCD, measures differences between elevation rasters while accountin...See More

Riverscapes Viewer for QGIS

Riverscapes Viewer for ArcMap

Riverscapes Viewer for ArcPro

Riverscapes Viewer for Web

Data Exchange

The Riverscapes Data Exchange is a warehouse for storing, discovering and sharing riverscapes compli...See More

The Waterfall

The Riverscapes Consortium production-grade tools listed above can be chained together to create a "waterfall" that produces a riverscapes project. The Riverscapes Context tool is the first tool in the waterfall, and it is used to create a series of riverscapes projects focused on different aspects of riverscape health.

All models depend on an initial Riverscapes Context project that collects together the prerequisite national datasets for a given watershed. The dependencies of the other tools are shown in the waterfall diagram below. The Riverscapes Metric Engine collatates metrics from the other tools to create a comprehensive assessment of riverscape health based on Discrete and Integrated Geographic Objects (DGO and IGO respectively).

Support

The Riverscapes Consortium is committed to supporting users and consumers of these tool outputs. We encourage questions regarding tools and their use through our online support forum here. A free GitHub account is required to post to the discussion board but you can browse without an account.