User Manual

Warning

QSCAT is currently unstable, so please expect for potential bugs and issues. In the meantime, we kindly request your assistance in reporting any problems you encounter at QSCAT GitHub Issues (qscat/qscat#issues). Thank you for your cooperation!

User Manual

• Overview
• Features
• Requirements
  • QGIS versions
• Installation
  • By QGIS Plugin Repository
  • By Install from ZIP
• Required Inputs
  • Shorelines layer
    • Shoreline vectors preparation
    • Merged shoreline layers
    • Attribute fields and values
  • Baseline layer
    • Baseline vectors creation
    • Optional multiple baseline vectors in one layer
• Tab: Project Settings
  • Coordinate Reference System
  • Metadata
    • Author
• Tab: Automator
  • Shorelines
    • Shorelines fields
  • Baseline
    • Baseline fields
    • Baseline buffer
• Tab: Baseline
  • Layer
  • Placement
  • Orientation
  • Fields (optional)
• Tab: Shorelines
  • Layer
  • Fields
• Tab: Transects
  • Layer
    • Layer output name
  • Count
    • By transect spacing
    • By number of transects
  • Parameters
    • Transect length
    • Smoothing distance
  • Vector layer output
    • Layers
• Tab: Shoreline Change
  • General
    • Transects layer
    • Clip transects
  • Transect-shoreline intersections
  • Shoreline change statistics
    • Shoreline Change Envelope (SCE)
    • Net Shoreline Movement (NSM)
    • End-Point Rate (EPR)
    • Linear Regression Rate (LRR)
    • Weighted Linear Regression (WLR)
    • Supplementary Statistics
  • Pairwise comparison of shorelines
  • Additional parameters
  • Vector layer output
    • Layers
    • Attributes
• Tab: Area Change
  • General
    • Polygon boundary
    • Stat layer
  • How it works
    • Step (a): Preparing of the inputs
    • Step (b): Clustering the transects
    • Step (c): Grouping by trends
    • Step (d): Creating boundaries between groups
    • Step (e): Extracting the area between boundaries
  • Vector layer output
    • Layer
    • Attributes
• Tab: Forecasting
  • Layer
  • Algorithm
    • Kalman Filter
  • Time period
  • Vector layer output
    • Layers
    • Attributes
• Tab: Visualization
  • Layer
    • Shoreline change statistic layer
    • Statistic value field
    • Uncertainty value (SCE, NSM, EPR)
  • Color ramp
    • Classification mode
    • Number of negative and positive class
  • Graduated symbology output
    • Classes
    • Color ramp color stops
• Tab: Summary Reports
  • General
    • Reports save location
    • Enable reports generation
  • Content of summary reports
    • Base information
    • Shoreline Change
    • Area Change
    • Forecasting
• Tab: About
• Sample Workflow
  • Preparing the shoreline vectors
  • Generating the baseline vectors
    • Merging the shoreline vectors
    • Creating a buffer using QSCAT
    • Converting the buffer to baseline vector
  • Configuring the shoreline and baseline layer attributes
    • Shorelines
    • Baseline
  • Configuring the selections of layer and fields
  • Casting of transects
  • Computing the shoreline change
  • Running optional features
    • Computing the area change
    • Running the forecasting
    • Visualizing the statistics transects
• Help and Support
  • Report Bugs
• Contributors
  • Authors
  • Acknowledgements
• Appendices
  • Appendix 1: Warning and Errors
    • Shorelines
    • Transects
    • Shoreline Change
  • Appendix 2: Example Summary Reports
    • Shoreline Change
    • Area Change
    • Forecasting
• References