Compare with published river gradient estimates

ropensci / slopes

Package to calculate slopes of roads, rivers and trajectories

https://docs.ropensci.org/slopes/

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Compare with published river gradient estimates #5

Open Robinlovelace opened 4 years ago

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

E.g. with reference to this paper, flagged by @joeytalbot: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169418304888

You up for giving it a go Joey?

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

I've looked at the data from the paper mentioned previously and it doesn't look like it provides the vector data representing the rivers, or the results in an accessible form so may be a no go.

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

However, a dataset from another paper looks promising, with highly accurate recordings of road height:

Paper results: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-019-0147-x/tables/7

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago