Software available for download

MATLAB code for Mac or PC

USGS Open-File Report 2005-1272
"Bedforms 4.0: MATLAB Code for Simulating Bedforms and Cross-Bedding"
By David M. Rubin and Carissa L. Carter
http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2005/1272/

Grain-Size Toolbox

Grain Size from Digital Images of Sediment
Computer code available in different formats

Cobble Cam

Download the code from this page

Warrick, J.A., Rubin, D.M., Ruggiero, P., Harney, J., Draut, A.E., and Buscombe, D., 2009, Cobble cam: grain-size measurements of sand to boulder from digital photographs and autocorrelation analyses: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 34, 1811-1821, doi:10.1002/esp.1877. (834 K PDF)
Code for grain size of sand, gravel, and cobbles
The following files can be used to conduct 'Cobble Cam' grain size analyses on digital photographs as described in Warrick et al. (2009). Please see the read_me.rtf file for more information.

Old PC software for simulating ripple and dune bedforms and crossbedding, no longer maintained

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• Bedforms program for PCs with math co-processor
• Bedforms program for PCs without math co-processor
• Bedforms program documentation, including figures, in RTF format (6.7 megabytes) This document should be downloaded, and then displayed using a word processing program that can interpret RTF format; this document will not load properly in an HTML browser.
• Bedforms program documentation, without figures, in plain text format (30 kbytes)
• Input files

FORTRAN source code for bedform and cross-bedding simulation