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About Riverscapes Studio

QGIS Riverscapes Studio or QRiS (pronounced curious) is a flagship, professional-grade tool of the Riverscapes Consortium. This free, open-source software is available to anyone interested in understanding and analyzing riverscapes. It helps users with analysis, monitoring, and assessment of riverscapes, and the preparation of designs and as-builts for low-tech process-based restoration projects.

Funding

We are grateful for the early support for QRiS from the US Forest Service, NOAA Fisheries, and NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife. Early and ongoing financial support from Anabranch Solutions who not only developed the vision behind QRiS, but provided the early resources and subsidized staff time to make it a reality.

The US Forest Service (Award: 19-CS-11046000-026), NOAA Fisheries, NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife (Via pass-through Award from Pheasants Forever to USU - Grant 201426) and Anabranch Solutions were instrumental in funding the early development of QRiS. They provided the necessary funds and support for testing proof of concepts and alpha pre-release versions of the code.

However, the lion's share of development was funded by the Bureau of Land Management Aquatics Program through multiple co-operative agreements with Utah State University (Awards: L20AC00514, L22AC00247, L24AC00611) as has long-term responsive support to user needs. Later support came from the USDA NRCS Conservation Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) Wetlands (Grant NR213A750023C005) and Watersheds (Grant NR203A750023C01) programs helped tailor applications of QRiS to NRCS Conservationists and Planners.

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A special thanks to the following individuals who supported and funded the integration of Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration principles into QRiS.

Development Team

QRiS is developed by North Arrow Research. The QRiS Development Team is led by Philip Bailey (Owner of North Arrow Research and Adjunct Professor at Utah State University) and Joseph Wheaton (Professor of Riverscapes at Utah State University). The initial plugin was set up by Kelly Whitehead and the early releases bringing the LTPBR design functionality were developed by Nick Weber. See Contributors on GitHub for the full list of code contributors to QRiS. Zach Burgert and Joshua Gilbert (Anabranch Solutions) have been a crucial part of the development team providing iterative testing of new features, proposing new features from the perspective of active LTPBR practitioners, and building out the protocol libraries.

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License

The QGIS Riverscapes Studio (QRiS) is:

Release Notes

Each release of QRiS comes with supplementary release notes, which are readily available in the GitHub Repository. These notes detail all new features introduced or bugs that have been fixed, including their associated issue number for easy reference.

We track both known bugs and enhancement ideas on our GitHub Issues Page. If you find a bug or have an idea for improvement, please post it there. Be sure to include a full explanation and support it with screenshots, GIFs, and/or videos.

Bugs

If you find a problem or need help, reach out to our support team. If you are a power user and comfortable with GitHub, you can also post issues, feature requests and bugs to our GitHub Repo. Before logging a suspected bug, please search the active bugs list before doing so to avoid duplicates. If you have more information to report, please post a comment to the appropriate issue.

QRiS GitHub Issues

See and report issues on GitHub

Sumbit a Support Ticket

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