Terrain suite

tr_terrain_suite

Ngong Hills and the Rift Valley escarpment, Kajiado, KenyaSuite1 call
What it does

The standard set in one call: slope, aspect, hillshade, curvature, ruggedness, TPI, landforms, flow accumulation and streams, ravines and ridges, contours.

Like Surface Parameters + Hydrology toolset in ArcGIS Pro and SAGA Basic Terrain Analysis 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.

Roughness and topographic position

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Terrain suite over 619.38 km2 at 30 m: elevation 1561.61 to 2455.93 m; 2 raster(s) and 0 vector layer(s).

Roughness and topographic position
Roughness and topographic position

Parameters

ParameterValue
cell_size_m30
include["tri", "tpi"]

Numbers

MeasureValue
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: Terrain ruggedness (m)tr_terrain_suiteraster imagePNG 1,101 KB
Terrain: Topographic position (m)tr_terrain_suiteraster imagePNG 1,171 KB