Digitizing and analysis programs for historical floodplain transect data from the Whitewater River Valley, Minnesota, United States
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| contents | <p>This repository was developed to augment and analyze topographic floodplain transect data collected in Minnesota's Whitewater River Valley (U.S.), between 1939 and 1994, through (1) geospatial digitization, (2) elevation-change calculations, and (3) statistical comparison tests.</p> <p>The historical data was collected by federal agencies during stream and valley sedimentation surveys aimed at investigating accelerated erosion and deposition and/or increased flooding in the basin; this dataset is inherently geomorphic in nature so these programs pursue analyses primarily of interest to the earth scientist.</p> <p>These programs operate on surface profile data (i.e., elevation data).</p> <p>This repository includes 4 programs:</p> <p>transect_cogo_digitizer.py: Performs coordinate geometry (COGO) calculations to digitize tabular transect elevation data into GIS files. transect_sed_rate_calculator.py: Calculates mean-transect-elevation-change rates between successive elevation datasets to measure topographic change. transect_sed_rate_statistics.py: Performs Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) hypothesis testing suites to compare all mean-transect-elevation-change rates over the time interval represented in this dataset—1855–1994. transect_analysis_functions.py: The user-defined functions (UDFs) executed in the other programs.</p> |
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| spellingShingle | Digitizing and analysis programs for historical floodplain transect data from the Whitewater River Valley, Minnesota, United States Wood, Jimmy <p>This repository was developed to augment and analyze topographic floodplain transect data collected in Minnesota's Whitewater River Valley (U.S.), between 1939 and 1994, through (1) geospatial digitization, (2) elevation-change calculations, and (3) statistical comparison tests.</p> <p>The historical data was collected by federal agencies during stream and valley sedimentation surveys aimed at investigating accelerated erosion and deposition and/or increased flooding in the basin; this dataset is inherently geomorphic in nature so these programs pursue analyses primarily of interest to the earth scientist.</p> <p>These programs operate on surface profile data (i.e., elevation data).</p> <p>This repository includes 4 programs:</p> <p>transect_cogo_digitizer.py: Performs coordinate geometry (COGO) calculations to digitize tabular transect elevation data into GIS files. transect_sed_rate_calculator.py: Calculates mean-transect-elevation-change rates between successive elevation datasets to measure topographic change. transect_sed_rate_statistics.py: Performs Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) hypothesis testing suites to compare all mean-transect-elevation-change rates over the time interval represented in this dataset—1855–1994. transect_analysis_functions.py: The user-defined functions (UDFs) executed in the other programs.</p> |
| title | Digitizing and analysis programs for historical floodplain transect data from the Whitewater River Valley, Minnesota, United States |
| url | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17618566 |