perfectPeak: perfectPeak

Description Details Author(s) References See Also

Description

perfectPeak

Details

A collection of functions to facilitate the processing steps for calculating the "perfect peak" parameters and generating the output. There are functions for preprocessing and retrieving the values of dominance, prominence, independence from a given georeferencend Digital Elevation Model (DEM).

Author(s)

Chris Reudenbach

Maintainer: Chris Reudenbach giswerk@gis-ma.org

References

Marburg Open Courseware Advanced GIS: http://moc.environmentalinformatics-marburg.de/doku.php?id=courses:msc:advanced-gis:description
Rauch. C. (2012): Der perfekte Gipfel. Panorama, 2/2012, S. 112 http://www.alpenverein.de/dav-services/panorama-magazin/dominanz-prominenz-eigenstaendigkeit-eines-berges_aid_11186.html
Leonhard, W. (2012): Eigenständigkeit von Gipfeln.http://www.thehighrisepages.de/bergtouren/na_orogr.htm

See Also

perfectPeak is using heavily SAGA and GRASS GIS via the RSAGA-package and rgrass7-package. Please see their documentation for special questions dealing with the algorithms and parameters etc.


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