# xDEM: robust analysis of DEMs in Python.
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**xDEM** is an open source project to develop a core Python package for the analysis of digital elevation models (DEMs).
It aims at **providing modular and robust tools for the most common analyses needed with DEMs**, including both geospatial
operations specific to DEMs and a wide range of 3D alignment and correction methods from published, peer-reviewed studies.
The core manipulation of DEMs (e.g., vertical alignment, terrain analysis) are **conveniently centered around `DEM` and `dDEM` classes** (that, notably, re-implements all tools
of [gdalDEM](https://gdal.org/programs/gdaldem.html)). More complex pipelines (e.g., 3D rigid coregistration, bias corrections, filtering) are **built around
modular `Coreg`, `BiasCorr` and `Filter` classes that easily interface between themselves**. Finally, xDEM includes advanced
uncertainty analysis tools based on spatial statistics of [SciKit-GStat](https://scikit-gstat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).
Additionally, xDEM inherits many convenient functionalities from [GeoUtils](https://github.com/GlacioHack/geoutils) such as
**implicit loading**, **numerical interfacing** and **convenient object-based geospatial methods** to easily perform
the most common higher-level tasks needed by geospatial users (e.g., reprojection, cropping, vector masking). Through [GeoUtils](https://github.com/GlacioHack/geoutils), xDEM
relies on [Rasterio](https://github.com/rasterio/rasterio), [GeoPandas](https://github.com/geopandas/geopandas) and [Pyproj](https://github.com/pyproj4/pyproj)
for georeferenced calculations, and on [NumPy](https://github.com/numpy/numpy) and [Xarray](https://github.com/pydata/xarray) for numerical analysis. It allows easy access to
the functionalities of these packages through interfacing or composition, and quick inter-operability through object conversion.
If you are looking for an accessible Python package to write the Python equivalent of your [GDAL](https://gdal.org/) command lines, or of your
[QGIS](https://www.qgis.org/en/site/) analysis pipeline **without a steep learning curve** on Python GIS syntax, xDEM is perfect for you! For more advanced
users, xDEM also aims at being efficient and scalable by supporting lazy loading and parallel computing (ongoing).
## Documentation
For a quick start, full feature description or search through the API, see xDEM's documentation at: https://xdem.readthedocs.io.
## Installation
```bash
mamba install -c conda-forge xdem
```
See [mamba's documentation](https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to install `mamba`, which will solve your environment much faster than `conda`.
## Citing methods implemented in the package
When using a method implemented in xDEM, please **cite both the package and the related study**:
Citing xDEM: [](https://zenodo.org/record/4809698)
Citing the related study:
- **Coregistration**:
- Horizontal shift from aspect/slope relationship of *[Nuth and Kääb (2011)](https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-5-271-2011)*,
- Iterative closest point (ICP) of *[Besl and McKay (1992)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/34.121791)*,
- **Bias correction**:
- Along-track multi-sinusoidal noise by basin-hopping of *[Girod et al. (2017)](https://doi.org/10.3390/rs9070704)*,
- **Uncertainty analysis**:
- Heteroscedasticity and multi-range correlations from stable terrain of *[Hugonnet et al. (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTARS.2022.3188922)*,
- **Terrain attributes**:
- Slope, aspect and hillshade of either *[Horn (1981)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1981.11918)* or *[Zevenbergen and Thorne (1987)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3290120107)*,
- Profile, plan and maximum curvature of *[Zevenbergen and Thorne (1987)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/esp.3290120107)*,
- Topographic position index of *[Weiss (2001)](http://www.jennessent.com/downloads/TPI-poster-TNC_18x22.pdf)*,
- Terrain ruggedness index of either *[Riley et al. (1999)](http://download.osgeo.org/qgis/doc/reference-docs/Terrain_Ruggedness_Index.pdf)* or *[Wilson et al. (2007)](http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01490410701295962)*,
- Roughness of *[Dartnell (2000)](http://dx.doi.org/10.14358/PERS.70.9.1081)*,
- Rugosity of *[Jenness (2004)](https://doi.org/10.2193/0091-7648(2004)032[0829:CLSAFD]2.0.CO;2)*,
- Fractal roughness of *[Taud et Parrot (2005)](https://doi.org/10.4000/geomorphologie.622)*.
## Contributing
We welcome new contributions, and will happily help you integrate your own DEM routines into xDEM!
After discussing a new feature or bug fix in an issue, you can open a PR to xDEM with the following steps:
1. Fork the repository, make a feature branch and push changes.
2. When ready, submit a pull request from the feature branch of your fork to `GlacioHack/xdem:main`.
3. The PR will be reviewed by at least one maintainer, discussed, then merged.
More details on [our contributing page](CONTRIBUTING.md).
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