SAGA 9.12.5 | Tool Documentation

Fill Sinks (QM of ESP)

Author(s) O.Conrad (c) 2013
Library IDsim_qm_of_esp
Tool ID 1
Version 1.0
Menu Terrain Analysis | Preprocessing

Description

Filling in pits and flats in a DEM.


This tool implements suggested code examples from the text book Quantitative Modeling of Earth Surface Processes (Pelletier 2008) and serves as demonstration on code adaptions for the SAGA API. Note that this tool may be of limited use for operational purposes!

Parameters

 NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
InputDEMgrid, inputDEM--
OutputDEM without Sinksgrid, outputFILLED--
Sinksgrid, output, optionalSINKS--
OptionsGrid Systemgrid systemPARAMETERS_GRID_SYSTEM--
Fill Incrementfloating point numberDZFILL-Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 0.010000

Command Line


Usage: saga_cmd sim_qm_of_esp 1 [-DEM ] [-FILLED ] [-SINKS ] [-DZFILL ]
  -DEM:         DEM
	grid, input
  -FILLED:      DEM without Sinks
	grid, output
  -SINKS:       Sinks
	grid, output, optional
  -DZFILL:   Fill Increment
	floating point number
	Minimum: 0.000000
	Default: 0.010000