“…Based on the range and magnitude of the SI, meanders are classified into four groups (Table 1) (Ashour et al, 2017;Kuriqi et al, 2017;Tiwari et al, 2016). Due to the large number of Journal Pre-proof J o u r n a l P r e -p r o o f 12 points in the present application, the SI values are defined as the percentage of each class (Table 1).…”