Aspect

tr_aspect

Ngong Hills and the Rift Valley escarpment, Kajiado, KenyaSurface1 call
What it does

Compass bearing each slope faces, with the share of ground per sector.

Like Aspect (Spatial Analyst) in ArcGIS Pro and Aspect (GDAL DEM) in QGIS. Run by the product's terrain engine on 30 m cells from Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (full resolution): 740 x 930 = 688,200 cells; no model was called.

Charts

Aspect rose
Aspect rose

Aspect

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Aspect: most ground faces E (14%); 14% is flat (slope under 1 degrees).

Aspect
Aspect

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30

Numbers

MeasureValue
dominantE
flat_pct14.26
dem.rows740
dem.cols930
dem.cell_m30
dem.crsEPSG:32737
dem.missing_frac0
dem.elev_min_m1,562
dem.elev_max_m2,456
dem.elev_mean_m1,824
dem.relief_m894.3
dem_source.kindcopernicus
dem_source.native_res_m30.91
dem_source.crsEPSG:4326
dem_source.datasetCopernicus DEM GLO-30

Notes

  • DEM: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 (open data; cached). Copernicus DEM GLO-30: produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 (c) DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and (c) Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA
  • the grid (30 m) is finer than the DEM (30.9 m): values between DEM samples are interpolated

Layers

Files

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Terrain: Aspect (degrees from north)tr_aspectraster imagePNG 231 KB