Multi-Band Variation

Author: O.Conrad (c) 2010
Menu: Spatial and Geostatistics | Grids

Description

Calculates for each cell the spectral variation based on feature space distances to the centroid for all cells in specified neighbourhood. The average distance has been used for Spectral Variation Hypothesis (SVH).

References

Palmer, M.W., Earls, P., Hoagland, B.W., White, P.S., Wohlgemuth, T. (2002): Quantitative tools for perfecting species lists. Environmetrics 13, 121___137.

Parameters

	Name	Type	Identifier	Description	Constraints
Input	Bands	grid list, input	`BANDS`	-	-
Output	Mean Distance	grid, output	`MEAN`	-	-
	Standard Deviation	grid, output	`STDDEV`	-	-
	Distance	grid, output	`DIFF`	-	-
Options	Grid System	grid system	`PARAMETERS_GRID_SYSTEM`	-	-
	Radius [Cells]	integer number	`RADIUS`	-	Minimum: 1 Default: 1
	Weighting Function	choice	`DW_WEIGHTING`	-	Available Choices: [0] no distance weighting [1] inverse distance to a power [2] exponential [3] gaussian Default: 0
	Power	floating point number	`DW_IDW_POWER`	-	Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 2.000000
	Bandwidth	floating point number	`DW_BANDWIDTH`	Bandwidth for exponential and Gaussian weighting	Minimum: 0.000000 Default: 1.000000

Command Line

Usage: saga_cmd statistics_grid 9 [-BANDS ] [-MEAN ] [-STDDEV ] [-DIFF ] [-RADIUS ] [-DW_WEIGHTING ] [-DW_IDW_POWER ] [-DW_BANDWIDTH ]
  -BANDS:          	Bands
	grid list, input
  -MEAN:           	Mean Distance
	grid, output
  -STDDEV:         	Standard Deviation
	grid, output
  -DIFF:           	Distance
	grid, output
  -RADIUS:         	Radius [Cells]
	integer number
	Minimum: 1
	Default: 1
  -DW_WEIGHTING:   	Weighting Function
	choice
	Available Choices:
	[0] no distance weighting
	[1] inverse distance to a power
	[2] exponential
	[3] gaussian
	Default: 0
  -DW_IDW_POWER:	Power
	floating point number
	Minimum: 0.000000
	Default: 2.000000
  -DW_BANDWIDTH:	Bandwidth
	floating point number
	Minimum: 0.000000
	Default: 1.000000