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diff --git a/gis/whitebox-tools/README b/gis/whitebox-tools/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..40ed36cf0a --- /dev/null +++ b/gis/whitebox-tools/README @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform developed by +Prof. John Lindsay at the University of Guelph's Geomorphometry and +Hydrogeomatics Research Group. WhiteboxTools can be used to perform common +geographical information systems (GIS) analysis operations, such as +cost-distance analysis, distance buffering, and raster reclassification. Remote +sensing and image processing tasks include image enhancement (e.g. panchromatic +sharpening, contrast adjustments), image mosaicing, numerous filtering +operations, simple classification (k-means), and common image transformations. +WhiteboxTools also contains advanced tooling for spatial hydrological analysis +(e.g. flow-accumulation, watershed delineation, stream network analysis, sink +removal), terrain analysis (e.g. common terrain indices such as slope, +curvatures, wetness index, hillshading; hypsometric analysis; multi-scale +topographic position analysis), and LiDAR data processing. LiDAR point clouds +can be interrogated (LidarInfo, LidarHistogram), segmented, tiled and joined, +analyized for outliers, interpolated to rasters (DEMs, intensity images), and +ground-points can be classified or filtered. WhiteboxTools is not a +cartographic or spatial data visualization package; instead it is meant to +serve as an analytical backend for other data visualization software, mainly +GIS. |