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LIS Terrain Analysis - digital terrain analysis

This package contains tools to derive terrain breaklines and to calculate surface roughness as well as local morphometry features like slope, aspect, curvature and shadings from point clouds. Applications are digital terrain analysis and mapping products.

Tool: Local Morphometry

Features
• derivation of local morphometric features from point clouds
• methods: local plane fitting or meshing
• morphometric features: slope, aspect, curvature, shading
Applications
• digital terrain analysis
• visualization products

Tool: Rock Shadings

Features
• calculation of rock shadings by multidirectional terrain illumination
• user defined number of azimuth directions
• masking by slope threshold, optional
Applications
• visualization products
• cartographic map layers

Tool: Surface Roughness

Features
• calculation of surface roughness from point clouds
• least-squares plane fitting
• scale can be controlled by search radius
• measures: minimum/maximum distance to plane, distance of search point to plane, deviation of all points to the plane, standard deviation
Applications
• digital terrain analysis
• estimation of surface roughness
• statistical analysis, e.g. level of detection
• rockfall modelling

Tool: Surface Roughness Grid

Features
• calculation of surface roughness from point clouds
• analysis of user-defined point cloud attribute
• range-filtering of input values, optional
• least-squares plane fitting
• scale is controlled by grid cell size
• measures: minimum/maximum distance to plane, mean distance to plane, mean of unsigned distance to plane, standard deviation
Applications
• digital terrain analysis
• estimation of surface roughness
• statistical analysis, e.g. level of detection
• rockfall modelling

Tool: Terrain Breaklines

Features
• derivation of 3D terrain breaklines from DTMs
• user-defined analysis scale
• curvature threshold
• line smoothing, optional
• output: 3D line shapes layer, labels for concave/convex breaklines
Applications
• digital terrain analysis
• terrain breaklines