Load the whitebox R package.
Prints the whitebox-tools help…a listing of available commands.
## [1] "whitebox-tools Help"
## [2] ""
## [3] "The following commands are recognized:"
## [4] "--cd, --wd Changes the working directory; used in conjunction with --run flag."
## [5] "-h, --help Prints help information."
## [6] "-l, --license Prints the whitebox-tools license."
## [7] "--listtools Lists all available tools. Keywords may also be used, --listtools slope."
## [8] "-r, --run Runs a tool; used in conjuction with --wd flag; -r=\"LidarInfo\"."
## [9] "--toolbox Prints the toolbox associated with a tool; --toolbox=Slope."
## [10] "--toolhelp Prints the help associated with a tool; --toolhelp=\"LidarInfo\"."
## [11] "--toolparameters Prints the parameters (in json form) for a specific tool; --toolparameters=\"LidarInfo\"."
## [12] "-v Verbose mode. Without this flag, tool outputs will not be printed."
## [13] "--viewcode Opens the source code of a tool in a web browser; --viewcode=\"LidarInfo\"."
## [14] "--version Prints the version information."
## [15] ""
## [16] "Example Usage:"
## [17] ">> ./whitebox-tools -r=lidar_info --cd=\"/path/to/data/\" -i=input.las --vlr --geokeys"
## [18] ""Prints the whitebox-tools license.
## [1] "whitebox-tools License"
## [2] "Copyright 2017-2019 John Lindsay"
## [3] ""
## [4] "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and"
## [5] "associated documentation files (the \"Software\"), to deal in the Software without restriction,"
## [6] "including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,"
## [7] "and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,"
## [8] "subject to the following conditions:"
## [9] ""
## [10] "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial"
## [11] "portions of the Software."
## [12] ""
## [13] "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED \"AS IS\", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT"
## [14] "NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND"
## [15] "NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES"
## [16] "OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN"
## [17] "CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE."Prints the whitebox-tools version.
## [1] "whitebox-tools v0.14.0 by Dr. John B. Lindsay (c) 2017-2019"Prints the toolbox for a specific tool.
List all available tools in whitebox-tools.
Lists tools with ‘lidar’ in tool name or description.
Prints the help for a specific tool.
## [1] "LidarInfo"
## [2] "Description:"
## [3] "Prints information about a LiDAR (LAS) dataset, including header, point return frequency, and classification data and information about the variable length records (VLRs) and geokeys."
## [4] "Toolbox: LiDAR Tools"
## [5] "Parameters:"
## [6] "Flag Description"
## [7] "----------------- -----------"
## [8] "-i, --input Input LiDAR file."
## [9] "-o, --output Output HTML file for summary report."
## [10] "--vlr Flag indicating whether or not to print the variable length records (VLRs)."
## [11] "--geokeys Flag indicating whether or not to print the geokeys."
## [12] "Example usage:"
## [13] ">>./tmpRtmpTW2o3HRinst452361794914whiteboxWBTwhitebox_tools -r=LidarInfo -v --wd=\"/path/to/data/\" -i=file.las --vlr --geokeys\""
## [14] "./tmpRtmpTW2o3HRinst452361794914whiteboxWBTwhitebox_tools -r=LidarInfo --wd=\"/path/to/data/\" -i=file.las"Retrieves the tool parameter descriptions for a specific tool.
## [1] "{\"parameters\": [{\"name\":\"Input DEM File\",\"flags\":[\"-i\",\"--dem\"],\"description\":\"Input raster DEM file.\",\"parameter_type\":{\"ExistingFile\":\"Raster\"},\"default_value\":null,\"optional\":false},{\"name\":\"Output File\",\"flags\":[\"-o\",\"--output\"],\"description\":\"Output raster file.\",\"parameter_type\":{\"NewFile\":\"Raster\"},\"default_value\":null,\"optional\":false},{\"name\":\"Z Conversion Factor\",\"flags\":[\"--zfactor\"],\"description\":\"Optional multiplier for when the vertical and horizontal units are not the same.\",\"parameter_type\":\"Float\",\"default_value\":\"1.0\",\"optional\":true}]}"View the source code for a specific tool on the source code repository.
## [1] "https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools//tree/master/src/tools/hydro_analysis/breach_depressions.rs"library(whitebox)
# Set input raster DEM file
dem <- system.file("extdata", "DEM.tif", package="whitebox")
# Run tools
feature_preserving_denoise(dem, "./smoothed.tif", filter=9, verbose_mode = TRUE)
breach_depressions("./smoothed.tif", "./breached.tif")
d_inf_flow_accumulation(dem, "./flow_accum.tif")