Ravines and ridges

tr_ravine_ridge

Ngong Hills and the Rift Valley escarpment, Kajiado, KenyaLandforms1 call
What it does

Ravine lines (drainage of the filled DEM) and ridge lines (the negated DEM), classed with length, catchment, depth or prominence.

Like Stream to Feature + ridge extraction workflow in ArcGIS Pro and GRASS r.stream.extract / SAGA Channel Network 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.

Ravines and ridges

verified: 3 checks passed

32 ravine line(s) and 7 ridge line(s); ravines drain at least 6.194 km2.

Ravines and ridges
Ravines and ridges

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30

Numbers

MeasureValue
ravines32
ridges7
thresholds.ravine_min_catchment_m26,193,800
thresholds.ridge_min_catchment_m23,096,900
thresholds.min_length_m150
thresholds.relief_radius_m120
backendpure
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: Ravinestr_ravine_ridgelinestrings32GeoJSON 27 KB
Terrain: Ridgestr_ravine_ridgelinestrings7GeoJSON 3 KB