Tool NameTerrain Surface Texture
Tool ID20
Library IDta_morphometry
Version1.0
Author(s)O.Conrad (c) 2012

Please cite SAGA whenever you use it for your publications:

doi:10.5194/gmd-8-1991-2015


Description

Terrain surface texture as proposed by Iwahashi & Pike (2007) for subsequent terrain classification.

Parameters

NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Elevationgrid, inputDEM
Output
Texturegrid, outputTEXTURE
Options
Flat Area Thresholdfloating point numberEPSILONmaximum difference between original and median filtered elevation (3x3 moving window) that still is recognized flatMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 1
Scale (Cells)integer numberSCALEMinimum: 1
Default: 10
MethodchoiceMETHODAvailable Choices:
[0] counting cells
[1] resampling
Default: 1
Weighting FunctionchoiceDW_WEIGHTINGAvailable Choices:
[0] no distance weighting
[1] inverse distance to a power
[2] exponential
[3] gaussian
Default: 3
Powerfloating point numberDW_IDW_POWERMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 2
Bandwidthfloating point numberDW_BANDWIDTHBandwidth for exponential and Gaussian weightingMinimum: 0.000000
Default: 0.7