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About QRiS

QGIS Riverscapes Studio or QRiS (pronounced curious) is a flagship, professional-grade tool of the Riverscapes Consortium. The free, open-source software is a plugin to the free, open-source QGIS software. The tool is targeted at anyone interested in understanding and analyzing their riverscape - including: practitioners, managers, analysts, researchers and students with some familiarity with GIS. It helps users with analysis, monitoring, assessment of riverscapes as well as preparation of the design and as-builts of low-tech process-based restoration designs.

Funding

We are grateful to generous grant support from early adopters for the vision behind the Riverscape Studio at the Bureau of Land Management, the US Forest Service, NOAA Fisheries, NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife and Anabranch Solutions who funded the professional software development of QRiS. Without their support, this free software would not exist.

The US Forest Service, NOAA Fisheries, NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife and Anabranch Solutions were early supporters who paid for development of proof of concepts and alpha pre-release versions of the code.

Specifically, the following supporters and visionaries behind the Low-Tech Process-Based Restoration made QRiS a reality by raising the funds to develop it.

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.

License

The QGIS Riverscapes Studio (QRiS) is:

Known bugs as well as enhancement ideas are tracked using GitHub issues. Please report any bugs or enhancements being sure to provide a full explanation, preferably with images or better still, videos of the issue.

Release Notes

See the release notes provided in the QRiS code repository. They highlight what features were added and what bugs were fixed in each release.

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.

Questions and Discussion Boards

We use GitHub discussion boards to foster community interaction. Please post any questions you have or requests for new features to the appropriate board.

Bugs

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.