sandpyper: A Python package for UAV-SfM beach volumetric and behavioural analysis

Abstract

Sandpyper is a Python package that automates profile-based volumetric and altimetric sandy beaches analysis from a large amount of digital surface models and orthophotos. It includes functionalities to facilitate the cleaning of the elevation data from unwanted non-sand points or swash areas (where waves run up on the beach slope and 3D reconstruction is inaccurate) and to model beachface behavioural regimes using the Beachface Cluster Dynamics indices.