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A free tool integrating GIS features and workflows to evaluate sediment connectivity in alpine catchments (Abstract/Poster in atti di convegno)
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- A free tool integrating GIS features and workflows to evaluate sediment connectivity in alpine catchments (Abstract/Poster in atti di convegno) (literal)
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Stefano Crema, Luca Schenato, Beatrice Goldin, Lorenzo Marchi, Marco Cavalli (2014)
A free tool integrating GIS features and workflows to evaluate sediment connectivity in alpine catchments
in EGU General Assembly 2014, Vienna (Austria), 27 April - 2 May 2014
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- A free tool integrating GIS features and workflows to evaluate sediment connectivity in alpine catchments (literal)
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- The increased interest in sediment connectivity has brought the geomorphologists' community to focus on sediment
fluxes as a key process (Cavalli et al., 2013; Heckmann and Schwanghart, 2013). The challenge of dealing
with erosion-related processes in alpine catchments is of primary relevance for different fields of investigations
and applications, including, but not limited to natural hazards, hydraulic structures design, ecology and stream
restoration.
The present work focuses on the development of a free tool for sediment connectivity assessment as described in
Cavalli et al. (2013), introducing some novel improvements.
The choice of going for a free software is motivated by the need of widening the access and improving participation
beyond the restrictions on algorithms customization, typical of commercial software.
A couple of features further enhance the tool:
o being completely free and adopting a user-friendly interface, its target audience includes researchers and
stakeholders (e.g., local managers and civil protection authorities in charge of planning the priorities of
intervention in the territory),
o being written in Python programming language, it can benefit from optimized algorithms for high-resolution
DEMs (Digital Elevation Models) handling and for propagation workflows implementation; these two factors
make the tool computationally competitive with the most recent commercial GIS products.
The overall goal of this tool is supporting the analysis of sediment connectivity, facing the challenge of widening,
as much as possible, the users' community among scientists and stakeholders. This aspect is crucial, as future
improvement of this tool will benefit of feedbacks from users in order to improve the quantitative assessment of
sediment connectivity as a major input information for the optimal management of mountain areas. (literal)
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