Riverscapes Docs
Welcome to the Riverscapes documentation portal. This site brings together a wealth of information about the Riverscapes Consortium's efforts to develop standards, apps, tools and data focused on improving riverscape health.
Get Involved
Instructions describing how to perform specific tasks with riverscapes data, tools and workflows.
Products
Information about how the products developed by the Riverscapes Consortium can be used.
Initiatives
Descriptions of past and current efforts to produce riverscapes data around the World.
Standards
Our standards for organizing data, and how it appears in the Data Exchange and GIS Viewers.
Glossary
The jargon of terminology around rivercapes and the technologies we use can be confusing. Here you'll find definitions and explanations of key terms.
Products
This documenation for some of the products that Riverscapes Consortium has developed can be found on this site:
Data Exchange
Documentation about our portal for discovering and sharing riverscapes data.
PBR Explorer
Instructions for using the PBR Explorer platform that helps practitioners celebrate their riverscapes restoration successes.
Cyber Castor
Cyber Castor is a cloud engine for automating riverscapes models.
rscli - Riverscapes Command Line Interface
A command line interface for interacting with Riverscapes Data Exchange. It allows you to download and upload riverscapes data.
RSXML
A Python package for helping write project.rs.xml files that are needed to upload data into the Data Exchange.
Other applications and tools that the Riverscapes Consortium has developed have their own sites with documentation:
Riverscapes Viewer
Web and dekstop GIS applications for visualizing riverscapes data.
Riverscapes Studio (QRiS)
Plugin to QGIS for assessing and monitoring riverscape heatlh over time, as well as facilitating planning, design of LTPBR restoration.
Phlux
A repeat photo monitoring App available in the Apple and Android App stores and as a web application.
Riverscapes Tools - Network Models
A family of riverscapes network models for understanding and assessing riverscapes.
RC Community Platform
Our community platform for connecting with others with a shared interest in riverscapes and their health. Find and promote people, organizations, join communities, post to forums, and share resources.
About the Riverscapes Consortium
We are a collective of scientists, riverscape practitioners, and supporters brought together by shared challenges and common motivations. Our goal is promoting healthy riverscapes for all. Learn more here.
We are committed to building open-source tools to make it easier for researchers, practitioners and students to manage their own riverscapes. The breadth of ecological challenges ahead of us requires a diverse community working together across disciplines, geographic boundaries, and perspectives. Our hope is that we can spark scientific collaborations worldwide to more effectively tackle the urgent challenge of riverscape degradation.
Our Mission
Promoting vibrant, healthy riverscapes for all where thriving ecosystems and human societies can coexist and benefit one another for a more resilient future.