RiverMorph: A Web Platform for Enabling River Morphology Research

Abstract:

Information on river shape, bed morphology and sediment load are critical to help inform research and management issues related to river channels. However, such information is not easily accessible and/or available in public domain. RiverMorph fills this information gap by providing a web platform for aggregating, storing, sharing and analyzing river related scientific data. Additionally, it will serve as a clearing house for river morphology data that will help improve our overall understanding of national rivers’ health using scientifically-rendered datasets. This presentation will give an overview of RiverMorph, including its capabilities to: (i) store different types of data, (ii) process and visualize river morphology and hydrodynamics data; (iii) interact with other river data repositories such as the United States Army Corps of Engineers’ eHydro and United States Geological Survey’s Streamstats; and (iv) support research related to river hydrodynamics, morpho dynamics and sediment transport.