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Recently I've been struggling when trying to compare surrounding points of a DEM to a specific one (a feature in my case. A castle to be precise). I want to find out how steep a slope in an area around the castle is, compared to the castle/point itself.

I've tried with a buffer for the area and using zonal statistics afterwards, but this has proven to be unsatisfying for my research question.

Anyone got a smart approach for this?

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    A few questions: 1. What about the buffer and zonal stats (which stat?) results was unsatisfying? And was your buffer area a donut so as not to include the castle with the surrounding area? 2. Which software are you using?
    – ycartwhelen
    Mar 19, 2021 at 13:32
  • 1. the zonal statistics only give me values, but these can't be connected to the feature point. no, it was a circle, as I wanted to know the correlation between the castle and surrounding raster cells of the DEM. 2. using QGIS 3.16
    – Ben R
    Mar 19, 2021 at 16:10
  • It sounds like you want something like ArcGIS's Zonal Statistics as Table. This post goes into some QGIS options: gis.stackexchange.com/questions/233012/…. You might also want to consider how big your specific locations and surrounding areas are compared to the pixel size of your DEM.
    – ycartwhelen
    Mar 19, 2021 at 16:33
  • If you use zonal statistics, you get values for each buffer, so by itself they are connected to the belonging points because the buffers derive from the points. Use Join attributes by location (summary) to add the zonal statistics results to the original point layer. So I still don't understand what is unsatifying for you. Please describe in detail what exactly you want to get - otherwise, it's dificult to give advice.
    – Babel
    Mar 21, 2021 at 15:59

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