Questions tagged [slope]
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Incorrect slope values for points in QGIS [duplicate]
I'm trying to determine the slope of sampling points in QGIS 3.4, but the values are all ~89.99°, which I know is incorrect. Pretty sure it's an issue when creating the slope raster.
Based on the ...
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Create a land-use raster in which the “crop cells” are distributed in dependency on the slope?
I have a geo-"scientifical" question. If you don’t know the answer, but have a hint how to search for the solution, this information would be helpful as well!
In Germany we do not get land-use data ...
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Seeing heights in Landsat 8
I have downloaded some DEM from Landsat 8 from usgs website.
when I opened the compressed file I saw some Tiff files and two text files.
I opened the txt file using ArcGIS 10.7 and it contains many ...
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Slope and side-slope of vineyard rows
I have a question about interpreting the slope and side-slope of vineyard rows using a line vector layer and a DEM.
I am trying to calculate the slope along the row (split into 2 meter lengths) as ...
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Obtaining slope and aspect for points in QGIS
I'm new to QGIS.
I have GPS points uploaded to QGIS and a ⅓ arc-second DEM (USGS) of the area. I'd like to generate slope and aspect data for each point.
What is the best way to do this?
The ...
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Technical documentation for GDAL Slope
I was running a gdal slope calculation on DEM I had
gdaldem slope B:/data.tif G:/slope.tif -of GTiff -b 1 -s 1.0
and I need to find the concert documentation on how the slope is calculated.
https://...
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Analyzing Sonoma County's topography/slope in 2017 fires
I am looking to create a map of sonoma county's topography. I am looking at one of the components of a fire: slope.
I want to first isolate sonoma county, which is easy enough to do, after that ...
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Using QGIS polygonize tool to create discreet slope polygons
I am trying to create a shapefile with polygons representing areas of different slopes. I am running into some problems using the following workflow.
I start with a digital elevation model and using ...
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Correcting slope of river bed on DEM using QGIS or ArcGIS
I have a DEM that has incorrect value of altitude/slope in the river bed area. This is a result of the interpolation of elevation value that are close to the river and creates lots of errors.
In fact ...
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Reclassify slope raster
I want to reclassify a slope raster as part of Least Cost Path Analysis, but I'm a little bit confused about the reclass rules.
My rules look like this at the moment (numbers left are degree):
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Average Cross Slope Calculation
My county ( Pima, Arizona ) uses a number called “average cross slope” which they define as
ACS = (I * L)/A
where
I = contour interval
L = length of contour lines in the area
A = area
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Slope and Aspect calculations giving wildly different results based on zoom using Leaflet
I asked Accessing slope and aspect data using Leaflet? last week about getting slope and aspect as a function of lat and lng in leaflet, and I am in the process of trying to code out a good answer. ...
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Accessing slope and aspect data using Leaflet?
I am building an application in leaflet, and I need to be able to access slope and aspect as a function of latitude and longitude. Currently I am able to get elevation data from the mapbox elevation ...
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QGIS Slope analysis thinks elevation unit is degrees making all slopes 90 degrees or 0 degrees [closed]
When i run my slope analysis the output has only two values: 0 and close to 90 degrees. The only way I have found to solve this is using a z factor of 1/111,120 which is the conversion of degrees to ...
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How do I view and export table with slope data for raster and TIN?
Using an original point file, I created a DEM raster with IDW interpolation as well as a TIN. I used surface analysis to create 3D slope layers, one with degrees for the raster (IDW) and one with ...
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Comparing Slope among various DEM resolutions?
I'm comparing the slope products derived from DEMs of various spatial resolutions (1m, 10m, 30m) for a set area.
The trend I find is that as the resolution improves, the areal extent of various ...
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Correcting forestry acreages due to slope to get actual acreages treated [duplicate]
I came up with a process to get actual acreages vs map acres of steep slopes, but I am wondering what others do to correct for steep slopes and get actual acreage treated? For mine, In ArcGIS Desktop, ...
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Calculating average slope using ArcGIS Pro?
I want to rate for ease of walkability for one track, I have a road shapefile and raster of the slope.
Any ideas about how to calculate average slope or other methods to do that?
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Which layer for least cost analysis?
I'm new to least cost analysis. I have a DEM-layer of a region and I want to know what's the least cost path from a to b. Do I have to use the DEM layer to calculate that? I also have a hillshade ...
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Labeling DEM or slope layer with slope angle in degrees?
I have a shapefile and made a DEM raster to create contours and slope analyze puttinggreen for a golf area . I have all i need except the slope values in degree (labeled directly in the map along with ...
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Digital Terrain Analysis - Roughness Index [closed]
Currently I am working on a project dealing with terrain analysis based on a DEM. I came across the term "roughness index" using slope values from that specific DEM. On YouTube I found a video, which ...
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Calculating variable buffers using slope between river and point 100' away using ArcGIS Pro?
I have a network of streams that I need to buffer based on a basic rule set. This buffer will depend on the slope.
The slope is determined by the looking at the difference in elevation between a ...
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Extract longest flow path in ArcGIS pro
I did calculate Hydrology with Spatial Analysis tools==> Hydrology and now, I have streams and Watershed. In each watershed, I need to extract the longest Flow as a polyline for calculate slope. What ...
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Python error on QGIS
We are doing the slope analysis for one of our clients and can find the following error every time we do the analysis. We have not faced this situation in the past. The QGIS version which are using is ...
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GRASS GIS producing different slope than GDAL?
When producing a slope in GRASS GIS 7.4 the results are different than with QGIS (GDAL) and ArcMap for the same input data and same parameter (Z ratio is 1.0 and degrees). QGIS and ArcMap generate ...
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Selecting Certain Slope Class That Is Not Surrounded Narrowly By Other Class
not sure how to brake it down, but let me try
i've created a slope classification with this class
now what i'm looking for is how can i select the class of 0%-8% that is not surrounded narrowly by ...
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Adding slope values to attribute table (QGIS 3)
I have a DEM raster and some points (one .shp for all points) plotted on it.
I would like to know if there is a way to add the slope value of the pixel that each point is located in the attribute ...
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Using QGIS 3.2 to add slope and/or % grade to county-wide street layer?
Using QGIS 3.2 what is the best way to add slope and/or % grade to a county-wide street layer using the following data:
Streets (polylines) = 35k records (10mb)
Contours (polylines) = 500k records (...
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Extracting slope of aspect information using QGIS?
In What is SOA (slope of aspect)? @Spacedman explained to me what SOA means. Now I need help to understand how I could work with it and extract the data that I want.
I want to use Qgis (with Grass ...
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What is SOA (slope of aspect)?
I’m reading an article that the authors talk about extracting values of SOA (slope of aspect). I can’t find anything related to that on Google.
This article reference is : ZHOU, Yi et al. Automatic ...
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Finding glider reachable area / catchment area with custom slope?
I'd like to produce maps for gliders in mountains.
I'm looking to display the reachable area by a glider taking off from a given point (obviously with the corresponding DEM).
For a first approach I'...
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Identifying flat-ish hilltops in a DEM?
I am working on a project where I need to identify the area of a hilltop that is relatively flat within which stone structures could be built before the slope becomes too great to build without having ...
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Seeking CSMapMaker (QGIS Plugin) equivalent for ArcGIS Desktop?
I'm looking for a tool or script or set of operations to mimic the output from a certain QGIS plugin called CSMapMaker, wherein curvature, slope, and a gaussian filtered DEM are overlain one another ...
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Performing raster analysis using Arcpy - in_memory does not preserve raster shape
I am creating a script tool using Arcpy and it transforms elevation data into a final clip polygon as part of a lengthy site selection tool. When I perform the raster analysis and save my intermediate ...
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Slope is not consistent with the elevation of DEM and seems to be incorrect
I have a DEM image which shows the elevation is from approx. 81 to 103. I expected the slope should be 0-22m. However, the result from DEM-Terrain Model-Slope is from 2.5 to 13.2. Anyone knows why?
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GdalDEM slope error in Jupyter
I try to calculate slope data. This is the DEM source https://www.earthenv.org/DEM
Firstly, I translate data with gdal.Warp according to image UTM zone. Original image .bil extension so first I ...
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Estimating slope by fitting a quadratic surface (Evans 1980) in ArcGIS Pro
I am needing to calculate slope using the quadratic surface method of Evans (An integrated system of terrain analysis and slope mapping, 1980), but not sure how to implement it in ArcGIS Pro. A GRASS ...
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LS Factor in SAGA (slope units)
In which units do I have to calculate Slope to use as an input for the LS Factor tool in SAGA (degrees, %, radians)?
I couldn't find anything in the documentation.
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Strange output from QGIS Raster Terrain Analysis plugin
This is closely related to several other questions on this site: here, here, here etc.
However, my issue is not resolved by following the answers provided.
I am using the Raster Terrain Analysis ...
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Calculating maximum extent of debris flow from point with mean slope value
At a very large scale I perform a spatial analysis for which I have to apply mean slope criteria. These criteria allow me to calculate the maximum extent of an event (debris flow). I know that below a ...
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How should I interpret R terrain/slope output in degrees?
I'm calculating the average land gradient (in degrees) in Brazil and I do not know how to interpret the results.
As I'm calculating the slope in degrees, 0.25 is 0.25 degrees, 25 degrees or should I ...
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Creating slope map with ArcGIS Desktop?
I created slope map with DEM model in ArcGIS Desktop. But it is only categorize in to two sections. I think it is problem with the horizontal and vertical scale. I used WGS84 coordinate system.
How ...
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Calculate average slope values for a point using 50ft vector perpendicular to contour
I am trying to calculate the average percent slope of a hillside on either site of a data point. I tried extracting info from a DEM using a radius around the point, but I believe a more accurate ...
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Statistics of slope in individual polygons (asset) on Google Earth Engine
I have a single shapefile with multiple polygons, uploaded to GEE as an asset. I am trying to find the mean slope (using SRTM elevation imagery) in each of the polygons, on GEE. However, I get only ...
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Slope rasters - different results from different tools
I'm calculating Least Cost Path (LCP) within QGIS 2.18. The first step is to produce the slope raster from the DEM. Using r.slope in GRASS produces excellent results where I can go on and finally ...
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Convert slope file to calculate the percentage of the coverage
I calculated the Slope of the area that I'm working on, and I was wondering if there is a way to calculate the actual percentage of each bracket, meaning the percentage of contribution of each class. ...
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Converting RTK Elevation Data to DEM?
I have a shapefile that contains elevation data. I want to eventually convert this to a slope layer. I'm assuming I have to convert to a raster, then a DEM, then slope.
Is that correct?
If so, ...
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QGIS/GRASS: forecast slope variation in slope by a new road
For preliminary project purposes, I wonder if there is a way to forecast and calculate with QGIS and/or GRASS the variation of slope dued by new road, starting with terrain DEM and a project sketch of ...
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What the default unit in QGIS 2.18 $area is calculated and etc?
I'm a beginner in QGIS . We are using 2.18 version.
What are the basic units for area and slope, etc? SI, so means m, m^2, °? Or I can set it by myself? If it's possible to set it, where?
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Creating polygons of specific slope percentage from a slope raster in QGIS
I am trying to extract all areas where the slope is greater than 20% and then turn those areas into a polygon.
I'm using QGIS 3.0.2.
