Tool Coastal Profile Crossings
The Coastal Profile Crossings tool identifies the crossing points between coastal profiles along a reference coastline (from CliffMetrics Normal outputs) and any other coast lines and calculates the distance and coastline differences metrics.
- Author: Andres Payo & Olaf Conrad (c) 2020
- Menu: Terrain Analysis|Coastal Morphology
Parameters
| | Name | Type | Identifier | Description | Constraints |
|---|
| Input | SeaSide Profile Lines Layer | Shapes, input | LINES_SeaSide | - | - |
| LandSide Profile Lines Layer | Shapes, input | LINES_LandSide | - | - |
| Coast Lines Layer | Shapes, input | LINES_Coast | - | - |
| Output | Crossings at Sea Side | Shapes, output | CROSSINGS_SEASIDE | - | - |
| Crossings at Land Side | Shapes, output | CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE | - | - |
| Distances to profile start point | Shapes, output | DISTANCES | Distances > 0 if towards sea side (acretion) and < 0 if towards landside (erosion) | - |
| Options | Parent Attributes | Choice | ATTRIBUTES | attributes inherited by parent lines layers | Available Choices:
[0] index
[1] attributes
[2] index and attributes
Default: 0 |
Command-line
Usage: saga_cmd ta_cliffmetrics 1 [-LINES_SeaSide <str>] [-LINES_LandSide <str>] [-LINES_Coast <str>] [-CROSSINGS_SEASIDE <str>] [-CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE <str>] [-ATTRIBUTES <str>] [-DISTANCES <str>]
-LINES_SeaSide:<str> SeaSide Profile Lines Layer
Shapes, input
-LINES_LandSide:<str> LandSide Profile Lines Layer
Shapes, input
-LINES_Coast:<str> Coast Lines Layer
Shapes, input
-CROSSINGS_SEASIDE:<str> Crossings at Sea Side
Shapes, output
-CROSSINGS_LANDSIDE:<str> Crossings at Land Side
Shapes, output
-ATTRIBUTES:<str> Parent Attributes
Choice
Available Choices:
[0] index
[1] attributes
[2] index and attributes
Default: 0
-DISTANCES:<str> Distances to profile start point
Shapes, output