FlussTools#
The analysis, research, and science-based design of hydrological ecosystems involve complex challenges for interdisciplinary experienced teams. We have created flusstools to meet the complex challenges and to at least partially automate time-consuming, repetitive processes of processing field data, numerical model outputs, or geospatial data. “We” stands for individuals with a great passion for rivers (German: “Flüsse”) and programming. Most of us work (or have worked) at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) at the Institute for Modelling Hydraulic and Environmental Systems. Because we have a strong commitment to transparent open-source applications, we created flusstools and we welcome new team members (for example, to add or amend a module) at any time - read more in the Become a contributor section.
Important
Follow the installation instructions on hydro-informatics.com to make sure that GDAL works on your computer as desired.
Currently, flusstools comes with the following modules:
bedanalyst - for plotting and numeric analysis of riverbed characteristic to identify, for instance, clogging (developers: Beatriz Negreiros, and Ricardo Barros).
geotools - versatile functions for processing spatial data for fluvial ecosystem analyses based on gdal and other open source libraries (developers: Kilian Mouris, Beatriz Negreiros, and Sebastian Schwindt). The functions are explained with the geospatial Python tutorials on hydro-informatics.com and the HydroMorphodynamics YouTube channel.
fuzzycorr - a map comparison toolkit that builds on fuzzy sets to assess the accuracy of (numerical) river models (principal developer: Beatriz Negreiros).
lidartools - Python wrappers for lastools (forked and modified from Kenny Larrieu).
How to cite FlussTools
If our codes helped you to accomplish your work, we won’t ask you for a coffee, but to cite and spread the utility of our code - Thank you!
@software{flussteam_tools_2023,
author = {Sebastian Schwindt and
Beatriz Negreiros and
Ricardo Barros and
Niklas Henning and
Kilian Mouris},
title = {FlussTools},
year = 2023,
publisher = {GitHub \& Center for Open Science (OSF)},
version = {v1.1.7},
doi = {10.17605/OSF.IO/G7K52},
url = {https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G7K52}
}
The documentation is also as available as style-adapted PDF.
More information and examples are available in the docs of every flusstools module.