2022-03-13 19:58:31 +01:00
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WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform
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developed by Prof. John Lindsay at the University of Guelph's
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Geomorphometry and Hydrogeomatics Research Group. WhiteboxTools can be
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used to perform common geographical information systems (GIS) analysis
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operations, such as cost-distance analysis, distance buffering, and
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raster reclassification. Remote sensing and image processing tasks
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include image enhancement (e.g. panchromatic sharpening, contrast
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adjustments), image mosaicing, numerous filtering operations,
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simple classification (k-means), and common image transformations.
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WhiteboxTools also contains advanced tooling for spatial hydrological
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analysis (e.g. flow-accumulation, watershed delineation, stream
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network analysis, sink removal), terrain analysis (e.g. common terrain
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indices such as slope, curvatures, wetness index, hillshading;
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hypsometric analysis; multi-scale topographic position analysis),
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and LiDAR data processing. LiDAR point clouds can be interrogated
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(LidarInfo, LidarHistogram), segmented, tiled and joined, analyized
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for outliers, interpolated to rasters (DEMs, intensity images), and
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ground-points can be classified or filtered. WhiteboxTools is not
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a cartographic or spatial data visualization package; instead it is
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meant to serve as an analytical backend for other data visualization
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software, mainly GIS.
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