downloads, help and background on the GCD software. GCD 6 is currently under development and will be released in late April, 2014.morphological sediment budgeting in rivers. The volumetric change in storage is calculated from the difference in surface elevations from digital elevation models (DEMs) derived from repeat topographic surveys. As each DEM has an uncertain surface representation (which might vary in space and time), our ability to detect changes between surveys is highly dependent on surface representation uncertainties inherent in the individual DEMs. The fundamental problem is separating out the changes between the surveys that are due to geomorphic change as opposed to noise in the survey data. GCD provides a suite of tools for quantifying those uncertainties independently in each DEM and propagating them through to the DEM of difference. The program also provides ways for segregating the best estimates of change spatially using different types of masks. The overall suite of tools is more generically applicable to many different spatial raster-based change detection problems.
The methodological development is described in (Wheaton et al., 2010a), the Wheaton (2008) thesis, and the Wheaton et al. (2010b) RRA paper. The Matlab version of the code (DoD 3) is provided as supplemental information with the ESPL paper so that readers can test or extend the code as they see fit for their purposes.
Previous funding for GCD Software Development was provided by
Joe Wheaton (Utah State University Department of Watershed Sciences) and James Brasington (Queen Mary University). The newest version of the GCD is currently under development by North Arrow Research and ET-AL. The current development team consists of Philip Bailey (North Arrow Research), James Hensleigh (USU) and Joe Wheaton (USU). Nick Ochoski (ESSA) and Frank Poulsen (ESSA) were instrumental in the initial development of GCD 5. ESSA Technologies generously invested in kind donations of development time in GCD 5 development. Chris Garrard (USU RSGIS Lab) was the primary developer of GCD 4.
Extending GCD Software for latest developments (GCD 6). morphological sediment budgeting.