rios_preprocessor 0.1.5

Preprocessor for the Natural Capital Project's RIOS software package

Homepages

Visit the Landmark Information Group homepage at landmark.co.uk (Landmark Ecoservices page coming soon!)

Visit the home of RIOS on the web at naturalcapitalproject.org

Discuss

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

Documentation

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

• numpy

• pandas

• geopandas

• fiona

• rasterio

• shapely

• pygeoprocessing

Installation

pip install rios_preprocessor

Changelog

Version 0.1.5

• Python 3 style print statement fixing

• Cleaned up documentation