- A Hands-On Introduction to RiverTools 4.0 | Lecturer: Scott
D. Peckham, CEO and Founder, RIVIX, LLC
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a
hands-on introduction to RiverTools 4.0. This version
includes 64-bit support for the latest versions of Windows,
Mac OS X and Linux, a new graphics system, a streamlined
graphical user interface and many other new capabilities.
Attendees of this workshop will become familiar with the key
features of RiverTools 4.0 by working through a set of
tutorials. Workshop attendees will need to bring a laptop
computer if they want to run the hands-on tutorials. If
possible, the demo version of RiverTools 4.0 should be
obtained from www.rivertools.com and installed on the laptop
before the workshop. RiverTools 4.0 runs on Windows (XP,
Vista, 7, 8, 10), Mac (OS X 10.5 +) and Linux (Ubuntu, Red
Hat). The demo version includes all of the DEM data sets
necessary to run the tutorials.
Google Earth Engine for large-scale DEM analysis |
Lecturer: Ovidiu Csillik, Department of
Geoinformatics – Z_GIS, University of SalzburgAttempts towards a global geomorphometric
atlas have been done in the past when computational power
was less evolved than nowadays. In this study, we present
a possible way to create a global geomorphometric atlas by
taking advantage of the Google Earth Engine (GEE)
computational capabilities. To exemplify how accessible,
efficient and fast GEE works in geomorphometric analysis
we globally derive popular land-surface variables (e.g.
slope, aspect, multiple curvatures, and surface roughness)
and perform a hierarchical pixel-based classification of
topography on three levels of details. The scale of
analysis can easily be adjusted to meet the user needs.
Performing large-scale morphometric analysis with GEE has
the potential to become an important milestone in
Geomorphometry.
