evandethier/satellite-ssc: outlet-rivers

Estimating suspended sediment concentration (SSC) and flux using a globally applicable calibration for surface-reflectance satellite images.

The code for this project can all be run in sequence, beginning by making an R project, then running the .R files at archived and updated here. Begin with `0_download_files_from_zenodo.R`, which will download the files from this repository and make folders in your project directory that will store the files. Then progress through the other .R files (1-10) to do the analysis and generate the figures in our Science paper. These files are also archived here on Zenodo.

If you wish to just work with the data that we ended up with, it's all stored in the evandethier_entire_project_outlet-rivers.zip. Again, you can generate this by running the code or skip that step and just download it all. 

-- Evan Dethier, 26 March 2023

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This work and related work has been published here:

Applications:

Dethier, E. N., Renshaw, C. E., & Magilligan, F. J. (2022). Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans. Science, 376(6600), 1447-1452. DOI: 10.1126/science.abn798

Dethier, E. N., Sartain, S. L., & Lutz, D. A. (2019). Heightened levels and seasonal inversion of riverine suspended sediment in a tropical biodiversity hot spot due to artisanal gold mining. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(48), 23936-23941. doi:10.1073/pnas.1907842116

Methods: 

Dethier, E. N., Renshaw, C. E., & Magilligan, F. J. (2020). Toward Improved Accuracy of Remote Sensing Approaches for Quantifying Suspended Sediment: Implications for Suspended-Sediment Monitoring. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 125(7), e2019JF005033. doi:10.1029/2019jf005033