River Sediment Database (RiverSed)

The River Sediment Database (RiverSed) database contains Total Suspended Sediment (TSS) concentrations derived from Landsat 5, 7, and 8 Level 1 Collection 1 surface reflectance from all rivers in the contiguous USA that are ~60 meters wide or greater. TSS concentrations represent reach integrated medians concentrations over the footprint of NHDPlusV2 centerlines where high quality river water pixels were detected ithin each Landsat image  from 1984-2018. This is built in the River Surface Reflectance database (RiverSR) also in Zenodo (Gardner et al,. 2020 Geophysical Research Letters).

Files:

1) Metadata (RiverSed_v1.0_metadata.pdf): Description of all data files associated with this repository. 

2) RiverSed (riverSed_usa_v1.0.txt). Table of TSS concentration and associated data that is joinable to nhdplusv2_modified_v1.0.shp based on the "ID" column and to the original NHDplusV2 flowlines with the "COMID" column.

3) Shapefile of river centerlines to which the reflectance data can be attached (nhdplusv2_modified_v1.0.shp).

4) Shapefile of the reach polygons associated with each nhdplusv2_modified reach. (nhdplusv2_polygons.shp).

5) The reach IDs of original and new NHDplusV2 centerlines. (COMID_ID.csv).

6) Matchup database with extended metadata on locations and in-situ data (Aquasat_TSS_v1.0.csv)

7) The final training data used to build the xgboost machine learning model (train_clean_v1.csv)

8) The xgboost model that can make TSS predictions over inland waters in USA with 9 Landsat bands/band combinations (final_model_xgbLinear_v1.rds). The model can be loaded in R. Future version will have the xgb object to be compatible across languages.