Saturday, 3 March 2018

qgis - Slope, in which direction?


I have a dilemma? I work with a slope terrain. Slope field is done by a percentage of 10%. My question is, in which direction is oriented this pixel, or any pixels? It is important to know to what direction, if you're designing roads. On image below I represented Slope image, and zoomed 10% slope pixel. enter image description here



enter image description here


This is result from comments below. This is image made with Qgis2threejs. I still not sure that real slope of each pixel oriented to arrows, like those yellow pixels on top left corner, I mean diagonally. Sorry maybe my answer could be confused. enter image description here



Answer



With the back-and-forth comments, I am honestly not entirely clear as to what you are after here. In a quantitative sense there are metrics that provide an interaction of slope and aspect, that forest road engineers have commonly used.


One transformation is the Stage (1976) enter image description here where; alpha=rad(aspect) and theta=percent(slope) which is an a priori assumption of a maximum in the NW quadrant (45 azimuth) and a minimum in the SW quadrant can be replaced by an empirically determined location of the optimum. An resulting value for 50% slope example aspects of 0(N) would be 0.50 at 60E=0.25 at 180S=-0.500 and at 270W=0. The metric ranges from [-1 - 1].


Another slope/aspect interaction is the Balice et al., (2000) site exposure index (SEI) enter image description here where; alpha=rad(aspect) and theta=deg(slope), which rescales aspect to a north/south axis and weights it by steepness of the slope. The metric represents relative exposure ranging from -100 to 100.


You could also linearize aspect and multiply it by slope. Metrics such as Roberts and Cooper (1989) Topographic Radiation Index (TRASP) enter image description here not only linearize aspect but recenter it around an expected. In the case of TRASP, aspect is re-centered around a north-northeast azimuth and has a range of [0-1].


These functions are all available in the ArcGIS Desktop/Pro Gradient Metrics Toolbox.


No comments:

Post a Comment

arcpy - Changing output name when exporting data driven pages to JPG?

Is there a way to save the output JPG, changing the output file name to the page name, instead of page number? I mean changing the script fo...