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title: BRAT
description: The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool
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# BRAT

Welcome to the BRAT website. The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) is planning tool intended to help researchers, restoration practitioners and resource managers assess the potential for beaver as a stream conservation and restoration agent over large regions and watersheds. At the heart of BRAT is a capacity model, which estimates the upper limit of dam density (dams per kilometer) for individual stream reaches throughout a drainage network. We focus on predicting where beavers could build dams and to what extent (as opposed to the more general case of where beaver could make a living), because it is the dam building activity they do as ecosystem engineers, which we are typically most interested in.
The Beaver Restoration Assessment Tool (BRAT) is planning tool intended to help researchers, restoration practitioners and resource managers assess the potential for beaver as a stream conservation and restoration agent over large regions and watersheds. At the heart of BRAT is a capacity model, which estimates the upper limit of dam density (dams per kilometer) for individual stream reaches throughout a drainage network. We focus on predicting where beavers could build dams and to what extent (as opposed to the more general case of where beaver could make a living), because it is the dam building activity they do as ecosystem engineers, which we are typically most interested in.

The BRAT model can be run with freely available national data sets, or with higher resolution data, and is used to identify opportunities, potential risks and constraints through a mix of assessment of existing resources and proximity to infrastructure. BRAT's backbone consists of **spatial models that predict the capacity of riverscapes to support dam-building activity by beaver**. By combining capacity and potential risk, researchers and resource managers have the information necessary to determine where and at what level reintroduction of beaver and/or conservation is appropriate.

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description: Estimating the active channel from flow lines and waterbodies.
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Unlike some of our operational-grade and professional-grade GIS tools, which "users" run the models themselves in desktop GIS, these tools are run centrally in the cloud and their outputs are consumed by users through the [Riverscapes Viewer](http://viewer.riverscapes.net) in the web browser or through desktop GIS. Users can access tool outputs, which our packaged as riverscapes projects in our [Riverscapes Data Exchange](https://data.riverscapes.net/).


## Resources for Developers

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# RCAT
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title: RME
description: Riverscape Metric Engine
description: The Riverscape Metric Engine
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title: Riverscapes Context
description: The Riverscapes Context Tool is a tool that aggregates contextual layers for consumption in other Riverscapes projects.
description: The Riverscapes Context Tool aggregates contextual layers for consumption in other Riverscapes projects.
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dscription: The Terrain Anlysis Using Digital Elevation Models
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# About

[Terrain Anlysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM)](https://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5/) is a suite of tools developed by David Tarboton at Utah State University's Hydrology Research Group. The [Riverscapes compliant](https://riverscapes.net/Tools/#riverscapes-compliant), [Production Grade](https://riverscapes.net/Tools/#riverscapes-compliant) TauDEM, utilizes some of the useful TauDEM algorithms, packaging inputs and outputs into a Riverscapes project that can be accessed as a product of its own, or used as inputs to other Riverscapes tools.
The [Terrain Anlysis Using Digital Elevation Models (TauDEM)](https://hydrology.usu.edu/taudem/taudem5/) is a suite of tools developed by David Tarboton at Utah State University's Hydrology Research Group. The [Riverscapes compliant](https://riverscapes.net/Tools/#riverscapes-compliant), [Production Grade](https://riverscapes.net/Tools/#riverscapes-compliant) TauDEM, utilizes some of the useful TauDEM algorithms, packaging inputs and outputs into a Riverscapes project that can be accessed as a product of its own, or used as inputs to other Riverscapes tools.

Riverscapes TauDEM projects take an input DEM and a channel and produce the following outputs using TauDEM algorithms:

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# About

The Valley Bottom Extraction Tool (VBET) is a tool used to identify the valley bottom of a riverscape, and roughly separate it into geomorphic units (channel, active floodplain, and inactive floodplain). The tool takes a DEM and channel area polygon as inputs. Three different topographic analyses of the DEM are used as lines of evidence in determining what is valley bottom:

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