Tool NameTerrain Surface Convexity
Tool ID21
Library IDta_morphometry
Version1.0
Author(s)O.Conrad (c) 2012

Description

Terrain surface convexity as proposed by Iwahashi & Pike (2007) for subsequent terrain classification.

Parameters

NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Elevationgrid, inputDEM
Output
Convexitygrid, outputCONVEXITY
Options
Laplacian Filter KernelchoiceKERNELAvailable Choices:
[0] conventional four-neighbourhood
[1] conventional eight-neihbourhood
[2] eight-neihbourhood (distance based weighting)
Default: 0
TypechoiceTYPEAvailable Choices:
[0] convexity
[1] concavity
Default: 0
Flat Area Thresholdfloating point numberEPSILONMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 0.000000
Scale (Cells)integer numberSCALEMinimum: 1
Default: 10
MethodchoiceMETHODAvailable Choices:
[0] counting cells
[1] resampling
Default: 1
Weighting FunctionchoiceDW_WEIGHTINGAvailable Choices:
[0] no distance weighting
[1] inverse distance to a power
[2] exponential
[3] gaussian
Default: 3
Powerfloating point numberDW_IDW_POWERMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 2.000000
Bandwidthfloating point numberDW_BANDWIDTHBandwidth for exponential and Gaussian weightingMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 0.700000