IWP-Network-Extraction

Extracting the network of troughs surrounding ice wedges detected by the MAPLE workflow using a simple geospatial vector data processing workflow. This code accompanies the commentary submitted to Nature, "The Capillaries of the Arctic Tundra" (Liljedahl, A., Witharana, C., and Manos, E., 2024)

Environment setup

To setup the required environment, you must have the licensed ArcGIS Pro software on your local PC, then clone the ArcGIS Pro Python environment. Directions on this can be found here https://pro.arcgis.com/en/pro-app/3.1/arcpy/get-started/clone-an-environment.htm. Once the environment is cloned, make sure the two following packages are additionally installed.

Name                          Version
scikit-image                  0.17.2
rasterio                      1.3.9
geopandas                     0.14.3