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Coastal erosion poses a significant threat to most coastal communities. This necessitates a better understanding of coastal erosion dynamics, and thus, shoreline change analysis (SCA) tools would be handy. However, many available tools require ...

• For SCA, QSCAT is an equally reliable but relatively faster alternative to DSAS.
• QSCAT can perform both transect-based and area-based analyses.
• Development as a QGIS plugin enhances accessibility and adoption of QSCAT.

The Memory-Efficient Watershed Delineation (MESHED) parallel algorithm is introduced for Contiguous United States (CONUS)-scale hydrologic modeling. Delineating tens of thousands of watersheds for a continental-scale study can not only be ...

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• A memory-efficient watershed delineation algorithm was introduced.
• The new algorithm uses a node-skipping depth-first search to save memory.
• Both input and output data are stored in a shared matrix to reduce required memory.
• It ...

Target motion monitoring plays a significant role in several computer-assisted interventions. However, ensuring the reliability of tracking algorithms can be challenging without adequate tools. We introduce SlicerCineTrack, a free open-...

• Open-source toolkit for target tracking verification in 3D Slicer.
• Enables visualization of tracking results with cine images and segmentation overlays.
• Evaluated by experts; found effective and user-friendly for tracking ...

The Delaware River Basin (DRB) in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States is an institutionally complex water resources system that provides drinking water for 13.5 million people, plus water for energy, industry, recreation, and ecosystems. ...

• Pywr-DRB enables open science & drought risk planning for the Delaware River Basin.
• Pywr-DRB bridges hydrologic model data, observations & water management modeling.
• Reservoirs, diversions & minimum flow targets shape low-flow ...

The monolithic open-source mathematical software system Sage, developed since 2005, is being transformed into a modular system of Python libraries with a renewed focus on collaboration and vertical integration. This paper is the author’s personal ...

Multi-source heterogeneous, multi-modal, and multi-type open scientific data (e.g., thematic sharing sites, metadata, journal articles, etc.) on earth surface systems (EES) provide important data sources for knowledge mining, discovery, and ...

• Developed a novel tool for constructing a scientific data association network.
• Presented an interoperable software system.
• Proposed a ‘time-space-topic’ model for building associative networks.

The software development community, largely dominated by male developers, frequently exhibits instances of sexism and misogyny. While efforts have been made to automatically detect toxic and misogynistic language within this community, existing tools ...

Open-source software in the geophysical community has been increasingly taking importance since more than a decade. Following this spirit, this study presents an open-source Python software for display, processing, picking of near-surface ...

• Development of a platform-independent code: PyRefra.
• PyRefra allows visualisation and treatment of refraction seismic data.
• Different picking methods are available.
• Pygimli is used for tomographic inversion.
• An example for ...

In recent years, open-source software (OSS) has attracted increasing attention due to its easy accessibility via cloud repositories, voluntary community, no vendor lock-in, and low total cost of ownership. In turn, specifying and evaluating OSS ...

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) are essential for two-dimensional flood modelling. Remote sensing provides ever-increasing coverage and quality of elevation and other data for DEM generation, but we lack standalone tools for integrating this ...

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• GeoFabrics provides a fully automated process for producing hydrologically conditioned digital elevation models.
• GeoFabrics can assimilate a wide range of elevation, infrastructure and natural feature data into digital elevation ...

Variometric approach (VA) technique has been introduced as an alternative to real-time kinematics and real-time precise point positioning techniques. As the ability of the variometric approach to detect short-term dynamic behaviors in real-time ...

We present an open-source multi-platform package for the damped rank-reduction (DRR) method, that has been widely used in various problems in seismology. The DRR method is an optimally improved rank-reduction (RR) method by damping the singular ...

• We present an open-source multi-platform package, DRR, for various applications in seismology.
• The DRR method can separate the useful signal and unwanted noise in multi-channel seismic data.
• The DRR package is composed of two parts:...

Three-dimensional (3D) shape lies at the core of understanding the physical objects that surround us. In the biomedical field, shape analysis has been shown to be powerful in quantifying how anatomy changes with time and disease. The Shape ...

Open-source software (OSS) projects rely on core and peripheral developers to develop, release, and maintain software. The former group plays a crucial role in initiating the project and making key decisions, while the latter contributes less ...

The source code of a Java-based software system is often structured into packages. When packages are large, they often carry maintainability quality issues. In the literature, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the specific maintainability ...

• Large packages have significantly higher coupling, cohesion, and complexity issues.
• A package cohesion metric could be used for refactoring large packages.
• A package complexity metric could be used for refactoring large packages.

Unlike the current design routine manually defining geometries for computational analyses, a future-oriented computer-aided design tool can generate a structural model through automated model optimization and iterative analyses. The ...

• Isogeometric analysis elements have been developed in OpenSees using NUBRS based shape function.

We present a flexible scalable open-source computational framework, named SECUReFoam, based on the finite-volume library OpenFOAM^®, for flow and transport problems in highly heterogeneous geological media and other porous materials. The framework ...

Advances in cyber–physical technologies have enabled real-time sensing and adaptive control of stormwater infrastructure. These smart stormwater systems allow for inexpensive, minimally-invasive stormwater control interventions in lieu ...

Solving real-life data-driven multiobjective optimization problems involves many complicated challenges. These challenges include preprocessing the data, modelling the objective functions, getting a meaningful formulation of the ...

As one of the key issues in multi-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) applications, the inter-frequency clock bias (IFCB) has been well studied in recent years. However, the lack of publicly available IFCB products prevents users ...