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Slope, in which direction?
The direction of a Slope is known as its Aspect. It's usually defined as the direction the slope "faces", to me that's a little ambiguous and it's more intuitive to think of it as the "downhill" ...
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In hydrologic terrain analysis is there a difference between "pits", "depressions", and "sinks"?
There is a difference, and I recommend the typology presented by Lindsay (2015) be used.
Lindsay (2015) presents a typology which defines a pit as a single cell in a DEM whose elevation is below that ...
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ArcPy delete terrain: cannot be deleted
I was able to replicate your problem, but found a solution. You have to remove the datasets that are used by Terrain dataset first before you can delete it. A bit weird but that seems the way it must ...
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"Relief" function from the Raster Terrain Analysis plugin in QGIS 3.0
If you search for Terrain analysis in the Processing toolbox you will find what you want. The tool moved from Raster -> Terrain analysis to Processing Toolbox -> Raster Terrain analysis:
I am ...
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OpenLayers & Google Maps: TERRAIN not showing as baseMap
You could just use a different version of google-maps-api, for example
http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?v=3.5&sensor=false
Example:
http://jsfiddle.net/expedio/sodserrw/
The same example with ...
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Algorithm for smoothing DEM without losing max and min elevations
What you want is an adaptive filter - something like the Edge-Enhanced Modified Lee Filter (see this article).
The basic idea is that the amount of filtering depends on the local variance - the more ...
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Algorithm for smoothing DEM without losing max and min elevations
To complement @Mikkel's answer, you coul'd find that tool in SAGA GIS (open source). The tool is "Multi Direction Lee Filter" and quoting from documentation
The tool searches for the minimum ...
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Calculating terrain Curvature in QGIS
LandSerf can do this .You can define windows size (3*3, 5*5, 7*7, 11*11,...) but it must be odd number. multiscale analyses. you can consider scale dependency of slope, Aspect and curvature. http://...
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How can I extract flat surfaces from a DEM with GRASS GIS?
Run the aspect tool r.slope.aspect.
Try the < min_slope option set to a very low number. The unclassified areas are your flat area. Play with the setting to get it just how you like. You can ...
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Remove terrainProvider from scene (ol3-cesium)
use the following function to toggle the terain
function toggleTerrain(){
var scene = ol3d.getCesiumScene();
var terrainProvider;
if (scene.terrainProvider._url){
//add a ...
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How SAGA calculates Convergence Index
In the SAGA-GIS Tool Library Documentation (v2.1.3) there is a reference to the method which is used for this calculation:
Koethe, R. & Lehmeier, F. (1996): SARA - System zur Automatischen
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How to style rocky coast?
You can achieve something similar with a marker line with variable-size rectangular markers.
Tweak the values in the data-defined marker size expression to get the right variation in size.
rand(1,...
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QGIS: Terrain accessibilty in hours/days usind DEM/CSV data
From the grass comands section you can use use either r.cost or r.walk to define your cost surface. Then you can use r.drain to calculate the least cost path, so I'm not sure why it's not working. ...
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Finding Rocky Outcrops
I would think about using a supervised classification, which will identify all the rocky outcroppings by their image signature.
Supervised image classification in QGIS
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Using slope and total height for terrain analysis in QGIS?
This can be done in a few ways, but using QGIS specifically, the best way I can think of is using Map Algebra. The idea is to first get all areas with a slope above your desired threshold, then ...
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Nested loop and terrain analysis R
This:
terrain_bound <- lapply(nlayers(dhm_terrain), function(i) {
should be:
terrain_bound <- lapply(1:nlayers(dhm_terrain), function(i) {
(or use pblapply - I took it out in order to see ...
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Using terrain correction in SNAP sentinel 1 toolbox removes all the values
This is a known issue and caused by inaccurate access to the SRTM 3Sec (Auto Download) data which is required for the terrain correction. Usually, it is automatically downloaded but the access changed....
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Reproducing terrain ruggedness index from the original paper example
I hate the be the bearer of bad news but, Riley et al., (1999) is wrong. The ruggedness index itself is fine but, the example in the paper is incorrect. Obviously, the reviewers did not work through ...
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Converting aspect/direction raster from geographic degrees to arithmetic radians
The aspect tool in QGIS has an option to output your aspects in trigonometric angle. This would give you 0 as due east, 180 as west, 90 as south, and 270 as north. Then just multiply the result by ...
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Software for amateur topographic surveys
Copan Lite should do exactly what you need. It's a free, GUI-based Windows COGO tool for land or topographic surveyors. (I was heavily involved in its development.)
From the Field Bearings Processing ...
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Software for amateur topographic surveys
You can try GNU Gama. According to its project page:
GNU Gama is a project dedicated to adjustment of geodetic networks.
Adjustment of geodetic networks means that we have a set of points
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Which Statistical Test to use?
It is really quite straightforward to obtain a Pearson's correlation coefficient. Given a population assumption:
xBar = mean(x)
yBar = mean(y)
xyBar = mean( (x * y) )
covariance = xyBar - xBar * ...
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How do I use the Terrain with Labels basemap in the Map constructor
You can combine the two layers as a single Basemap and pass them to the map constructor. Below is a full working example using the two layers you are interested in.
This came from a discussion we had ...
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Generating random but believable digital elevation model?
This code can be used to create a "Hill slope" DEM of just about any number of rows and columns:
# Building a fake hillslope
# hisllop is 5 rows by 6 columns
x <- seq(-15, 15, by=0.01)
z <- 1/(...
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Free Digital Elevation (Terrain) Model of Europe or Germany
For Germany you can order the DGM10 from the Federal Agency for Cartogrpahy.
The Official Elevation Datasets are available in 10 m to 1000 m spatial resolution with a height accuracy of 0.5-2 m.
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Open source tools to create quantized-mesh tiles for Cesium?
My currently preferred solution is Cesium Terrain Builder Docker. It is an extended version of the Cesium Terrain Builder with support for quantized-mesh-1.0 and can be easily run using Docker.
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Drone that generates a point cloud from photography
Probably they have made a structure from motion function. With the mosaic of several pictures around an object you can create its 3d model and get also the point cloud. Thats nothing too spectacular. ...
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DEM classified using SAGA GIS and conversion to point shape
You can probably use either Add Grid Values to Points or Grid Values to Points tool. They are under "Shapes- Grid" of Tools manager. (see below image, from SAGA 2.1.2)
If you already have a Point ...
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Cesiumjs 1.32 and ArcGIS 10.2 - ArcGisImageServerTerrainProvider is being deprecated - how to provide terrain data
Here's the issue where it was decided to deprecate ArcGisImageServerTerrainProvider. The reasons given (by one of Cesium's core terrain/imagery developers) are quoted here:
We probably should have ...
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Slope, in which direction?
With the back-and-forth comments, I am honestly not entirely clear as to what you are after here. In a quantitative sense there are metrics that provide an interaction of slope and aspect, that forest ...
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