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POTW - Global mapping of river sediment bars

Paper of the week by Carbonneau & Bizzi, 2024

potw

geomorphology

remote sensing

deep learning

Google Earth Engine

sediment

How are sediment bars and banks distributed in our rivers and how does their area change over time and space? This question may not be widely considered, yet it is a topic…

Using data from OpenStreetMap in R

code

r

maps

The OpenStreetMap community provides free and open geographic data! You may wonder how to use this data in R and that is what we’ll cover in this post.

Hosting a self updating Quarto dashboard on GitHub

code

r

quarto

github

Dashboards are cool and self updating dashboards are even cooler! This is short insight how to create something like this.

Developing packages in RStudio

code

r

packages

rstudio

Why to write a package? Packages provide an easy way to share code with others or use it later, saving time by organizing the code and projects in standardized way.

Installing packages for ‘renv’

code

r

quarto

github

renv is a R package that allows to create environments, where the user can install and manage packages. This is needed when using a GitHub action, when you want to render…