README.md

In hydflood: Flood Extents and Duration along the Rivers Elbe and Rhine

hydflood

The R package hydflood is designed to compute flood extents and durations along the German federal waterways Elbe and Rhine.

Installation

hydflood is available from CRAN. To install it run:

install.packages("hydflood")

To install the latest development version from Github run:

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("bafg-bund/hydflood")

Usage

The package hydflood is build around the packages terra and hyd1d.

# load the package
options("hydflood.datadir" = tempdir())
library(hydflood)

# import the raster data and create a raster stack
x <- hydSpatRaster(filename_dem = "data-raw/raster.dem.tif",
                   filename_csa = "data-raw/raster.csa.tif")

# create a temporal sequence
seq <- seq(as.Date("2016-12-01"), as.Date("2016-12-31"), by = "day")

# compute a flood duration
fd <- flood3(x = x, seq = seq)

# and plot it
plot(fd)

hydflood documentation built on April 4, 2025, 3:42 a.m.