Title
Meander Statistics Toolbox (MStaT): A toolbox for geometry characterization of bends in large meandering channels
Date Issued
2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
This contribution presents MStaT, a wavelet-based open-source software developed to provide a detailed characterization of large meandering river morphodynamics. MStaT integrates three independent modules: (i) meandering morphometrics module; (ii) migration module; and (iii) confluence module. MStaT delivers a short and medium-term framework to analyze the river centerline and valley-meandering channel interrelationship at low computational cost. It provides quantitative information on the spatial distribution of the arc-wavelength, migration rates, cutoffs events, and tributary channels influences. Data are presented through a user-friendly graphical user interface that makes the output interpretation easier, and that is freely available to the communities of river morphodynamics scientists and engineers.
Volume
14
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Biología marina, Biología de agua dulce, Limnología Ingeniería ambiental y geológica
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101113400
Source
SoftwareX
ISSN of the container
23527110
Sponsor(s)
Lucas Dominguez Ruben would like to thank the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Argentina for the financial support during his doctoral studies. Kensuke Naito and Jorge D. Abad acknowledge the funding from Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, United States under Grant Agreement No. 7711 . Ronald R. Gutierrez thanks the GEOSED research group from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú for supporting his contribution. The authors thank the two anonymous reviewers for their technical recommendations, which have helped improve this research article.
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