Curvature

tr_curvature

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

Total, profile or plan curvature (Zevenbergen and Thorne), 1/100 m.

Like Curvature (Spatial Analyst) in ArcGIS Pro and Curvature (SAGA Slope, Aspect, Curvature) 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.

Curvature

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Total curvature (1/100 m): mean -0.0, range -4.5777 to 3.8032.

Curvature
Curvature

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30
typetotal

Numbers

MeasureValue
total.min-4.578
total.max3.803
total.mean-0
total.median-0.001
profile.min-2.362
profile.max2.624
profile.mean-0.0054
profile.median-0.0025
plan.min-2.772
plan.max3.795
plan.mean-0.0054
plan.median-0.0026
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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