OpenTopography Tool Registry
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The OpenTopography Tool Registry provides a community populated clearinghouse of software, utilities, and tools oriented towards high-resolution topography data (e.g. collected with lidar technology) handling, processing, and analysis. Tools registered below range from source code to full-featured software applications. We welcome contributions to the registry via the Contribute a Tool page.
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| 1 | MCC-LIDAR | 9 Jun 2011 | Point Cloud Analysis |  |
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Keywords: classification, filter, curvature, ground, interpolation
License: GNU General Public License Description: Multiscale Curvature Classification of ground returns in 3-D lidar point clouds (las files), designed for forested environments |
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| 2 | RiverTools | 22 Feb 2014 | Software Suite |  |
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Keywords: DEMs, terrain, river network extraction, contributing area, curvature
License: Commercial License Description: RiverTools is a user-friendly GIS application that contains a wide variety of tools specifically designed for terrain and watershed analysis and visualization. Version 4.0 supports the latest versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. |
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| 3 | GeoNet | 4 Sep 2014 | DEM Analysis | |
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Keywords: channel heads, channel networks, nonlinear filtering, geodesic curves, curvature analysis
License: GNU General Public License Description: Computational tool for the automatic extraction of channel networks and channel heads from high resolution topography |
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| 4 | scarplet | 3 Dec 2018 | DEM Analysis | |
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Keywords: Python, fault scarp, edge detection, image processing, diffusion dating
License: MIT license / X11 license Description: scarplet is a Python package for detecting and relatively dating landforms like fault scarps in DEMs. It implements curvature based landform templates that can be used to estimate the maturity of a feature by diffusion dating or detect distinctive topographic features. |
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