rios_preprocessor 0.1.1

Preprocessor for the Natural Capital Project's RIOS software package

Homepages
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Visit the ``Landmark Information Group`` homepage here:
`landmark.co.uk <http://www.landmark.co.uk/>`__.
``Landmark Ecoservices`` page coming soon! Visit the home of ``RIOS`` on
the web:
`naturalcapitalproject.org <http://www.naturalcapitalproject.org/software/#rios>`__

Discuss
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Looking for a place to ask questions about RIOS? Check out the Natural
Capital Project forums!

Documentation
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``rios_preprocessor`` is meant as a replacement for the ArcGIS python
code that currently produces the inputs for the main RIOS program.

``rios_preprocessor`` produces rasters of:

- Downslope retention index
- Upslope source
- Riparian index
- Slope index

that are used as input for the following RIOS objectives:

- Erosion Control
- Nitrogen Retention
- Phosphorus
- Flood Mitigation
- Groundwater Recharge/Baseflow

Along the way, there are some additional tricks ``rios_preprocessor``
uses that may be useful in other contexts:

- rasterizes an input shapefile river network and matches it to a
(raster) DEM/DTM
- identifies discontinuous river banks along a rasterized river
- identifies the end points of rasterized rivers

Dependencies
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- numpy
- pandas
- geopandas
- fiona
- rasterio
- shapely
- pygeoprocessing

Installation
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``pip install rios_preprocessor``

Contact Details
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Questions about ``RIOS`` are picked up at the Natural Capital Project
forums.

If you have any questions or comments about ``rios_preprocessor``
specifically, you can contact me at [e-mail].

Changelog
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Version 0.1.0
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- Hello World!