dem_curvature — DEM surface op

Data kinds: depthimage2d

Call: import demops; demops.dem_curvature(dem, cell_size, kind='profile') (or opsdem.get("dem_curvature"))

Usage

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曲率 [1/m]。`kind"profile"(断面) / "planform"(平面) / "total"`。

Zevenbergen & Thorne (1987) の 2 次曲面当てはめ。断面曲率は流下方向の

凹凸(加速・減速)、平面曲率は等高線の曲がり(集中・発散)を表す。

Detailed usage guide

dem_terrain_analysis family guide

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

poc_dem_terrainpy -3.11 examples/poc_dem_terrain.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept image2d as input)

Same category (surface)

dem_slope · dem_aspect · dem_roughness · dem_tpi


*Provenance: demops.py — DEM operator registry. This per-op note is generated by tools/opdocs.py md (do not hand-edit).*

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