waterquality

The main purpose of waterquality is to quickly and easily convert satellite-based reflectance imagery into one or many well-known water quality indices designed for the detection of Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) using the following pigment proxies: chlorophyll-a, blue-green algae (phycocyanin), and turbidity. Currently, this package is able to process 40 algorithms for the following satellite-based imagers: WorldView-2, Sentinel-2, Landsat-8, MODIS, MERIS, and OLCI. In order to improve the aesthetics of the wq_calc() output, a series of Map_WQ() functions were developed to help reduce technical barriers and simplify the complexities in selecting a map layout. Additional functionality of the package includes a series of extract_lm() functions that wrap the “Fitting Linear Models” and “caret” packages to quickly generate crossvalidated linear models and standardized outputs (r², p-value, slope, intercept of the global lm model & average r², average RMSE, average MAE of crossvalidated model) for any number of algorithm and water quality parameter combinations. It is important to note that the extract_lm() functions require ground-truth data in order to develop the models. For a more detailed look into the full functionality of waterquality, please view “Introduction to the waterquality package”. For a broader look into how to apply this tool into a research workflow or for more information on topics such as data acquisition, image pre-processing, or results, see our publication entitled “Waterquality: An Open-Source R Package for the Detection and Quantification of Cyanobacterial Harmful Algal Blooms and Water Quality”.

Additionally, we have recently developed and published a complementary python-based version of waterquality compatible with ESRI ArcGIS and ArcPro. For more information please visit “waterquality for ArcGIS Pro Toolbox”.

Installation

You can install the released version from CRAN with:

install.packages("waterquality")

You can install waterquality from github with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RAJohansen/waterquality")

Basic Example

The main function in this package is wq_calc():

library(waterquality)
library(terra)
s2 = terra::rast(system.file("raster/S2_Harsha.tif", package = "waterquality"))
MM12NDCI = wq_calc(s2, alg = "MM12NDCI", sat = "sentinel2")

Map_WQ_raster(WQ_raster = MM12NDCI,
              map_title= "Water Quality Map",
              raster_style = "quantile",
              histogram = TRUE)
#> The legacy packages maptools, rgdal, and rgeos, underpinning the sp package,
#> which was just loaded, will retire in October 2023.
#> Please refer to R-spatial evolution reports for details, especially
#> https://r-spatial.org/r/2023/05/15/evolution4.html.
#> It may be desirable to make the sf package available;
#> package maintainers should consider adding sf to Suggests:.
#> The sp package is now running under evolution status 2
#>      (status 2 uses the sf package in place of rgdal)

Citation

To cite waterquality in publications, please use:

Johansen R, Nowosad J, Reif M, Emery E (2023). waterquality: Satellite Derived Water Quality Detection Algorithms. U.S Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, USA. R package version 1.0.0, https://github.com/RAJohansen/waterquality/.

Package Contributions

We encourage users to submit issues and enhancement requests so we may continue to improve our package.

Furthermore, if you have a water quality algorithm that was not on our list, and you would like for it to be included in our package please email [email protected].