DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7063226
title: The SandSnap Project: 2020 -- 2021 sieved grain-size data and associated sediment imagery

description: <strong>Overview</strong> SandSnap is a collaborative project engaging citizen scientists to amass a sand beach grain size database and educating the next generation about coastal processes. See the following webpage for more details: https://sandsnap-erdcchl.hub.arcgis.com/ SandSnap is funded by the US Army Corps of Engineers through the Coastal Inlets Research Program and the Regional Sediment Management Program. SandSnap allows anyone with a cell phone to take an image of the sand with a US coin and measure the sand’s grain size using a deep learning neural network (Buscombe, 2020; McFall et. all, 2020). This model is trained using data obtained from sieved physical samples of sand. The purpose of this data release is to document the data sets that went into the SandSnap model, trained in Aug 2021, and used between August 2021 ongoing on this date October 26 2022. <em><strong>Data formats and fields</strong><br> <br> usace_1024_aug_dry_set1_2_3_4_5_aug2021.csv</em> This is a spreadsheet that contains inputs for training the SandSnap SediNet model. SediNet is a deep-learning-based grain size predictor, by Dr Daniel Buscombe, Marda Science, LLC (https://github.com/DigitalGrainSize/SediNet). The SediNet model behind SandSnap v1 (August, 2021) is configured to estimate the grain size in pixels. A separate model is used to detect and size the coin, to estimate image scaling for grain size estimates in millimeters. File: name of image Latitude: WGS84 coordinate Longitude: WGS84 coordinate Population: an integer, identifying the site that the image came from. For internal model validation purposes (grouping error by site) dry: 0= visibly wet sand, 1= visibly dry sand mm_px: millimeter per pixel scaling, computed from digitizing a coin in each image, as the diameter of the coin in millimeters, divided by the number of pixels across the diameter of the coin d10: 10th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d16: 16th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d25: 25th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d50: 50th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d65: 65th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d75: 75th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d84: 84th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters d90: 90th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters mean: mean grain size, obtained by sieve analysis, in millimeters P10: 10th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P16: 16th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P25: 25th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P50: 50th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P65: 65th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P75: 75th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P84: 84th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels P90: 90th percentile of the cumulative grain size distribution, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels Pmean: mean grain size, obtained by sieve analysis, in pixels <em>GrainSizeAdditionalImagesTraining_Aug2021_latlong.xlsx assigns a coordinate to imagery and contains the following fields:</em> DatabaseObjectID ATT ID Name Coin mean Latitude Longitude <em>*.zip format files</em> Zipped folders contain original images, as well as augmented and tiled images for analysis. Tiled images are patches of original images with no coin scale. Patches are 1024 x 1024 x 3 pixels. Augmented images are tiles that have been flipped in both horizontal dimensions. <em>*.py format files</em> Python code for creating tiled and augmented images <strong>References</strong> Buscombe, D., 2020. SediNet: A configurable deep learning model for mixed qualitative and quantitative optical granulometry. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 45(3), pp.638-651. McFall, B.C., Young, D.L., Fall, K.A., Krafft, D.R., Whitmeyer, S.J., Melendez, A.E. and Buscombe, D., 2020. Technical Feasibility of Creating a Beach Grain Size Database with Citizen Scientists. ERDC Coastal and Hydraulics Laboratory.