Buildability

tr_buildability

Ngong Hills and the Rift Valley escarpment, Kajiado, KenyaSuitability1 call
What it does

Weighted buildability score (slope, equator-facing aspect, elevation limits) with the steep and optional wet ground excluded.

Like Suitability Modeler / Weighted Overlay in ArcGIS Pro and Raster calculator (weighted overlay) 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.

Buildability

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Buildability: 41.9% optimal, 30.8% suitable; mean score 67/100; 17.0% excluded by constraints.

Buildability
Buildability

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30

Numbers

MeasureValue
weights.slope_pct0.5
weights.aspect0.3
weights.elevation0.2
presetbuildability
score.min0
score.max100
score.mean67.23
score.median79
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

LayerMade byKindFeaturesFile
Terrain: Buildability score (0-100)tr_buildabilityraster imagePNG 1,029 KB
Terrain: Buildability classestr_buildabilityraster imagePNG 156 KB
Terrain: Best buildability areastr_buildabilitypolygons5,092GeoJSON 2,314 KB