Mineability

tr_mineability

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

Terrain mineability score (slope, elevation limits, aspect) in five classes.

Like Suitability Modeler in ArcGIS Pro and Raster calculator 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.

Mineability

verified: 4 checks passed

Mineability: 81.1% optimal, 10.0% suitable; mean score 92/100; 0.0% excluded by constraints.

Mineability
Mineability

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30

Numbers

MeasureValue
weights.slope_pct0.6
weights.elevation0.3
weights.aspect0.1
presetmineability
score.min34
score.max100
score.mean91.78
score.median96
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: Mineability score (0-100)tr_mineabilityraster imagePNG 762 KB
Terrain: Mineability classestr_mineabilityraster imagePNG 76 KB
Terrain: Best mineability areastr_mineabilitypolygons260GeoJSON 354 KB