[OSGeo-Discuss] WhiteboxTools v0.10.0 released

[John Lindsay]

Hello OSGeo community,


I am pleased to announce the release of WhiteboxTools version 0.10. WhiteboxTools is an advanced open-source geospatial data analysis platform developed at the University of Guelph starting in 2017. This version adds many vector and LiDAR data processing capabilities and moves the project closer to being feature complete. The software can be downloaded here<https://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/WhiteboxTools/download.html>, the source code is available on GitHub<https://github.com/jblindsay/whitebox-tools>, and more information about the project can be found on the project homepage<https://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/WhiteboxTools/index.html> and the user manual<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323547863_WhiteboxTools_User_Manual>.


Despite its similar name, WhiteboxTools is a separate project from the Whitebox Geospatial Analysis Tools (Whitebox GAT) desktop GIS project, which I also develop. If you are unfamiliar with the project, the following are some key features:


  *   It contains more than 340 tools for processing raster, vector, and LiDAR data.
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  *   It has a simple yet powerful Python scripting interface<https://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/WhiteboxTools/interacting_through_python.html> that allows users to develop custom scripted workflows.
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  *   WhiteboxTools functions can be readily embedded into hetergenous scripting environments along with ArcPy, GDAL, and other geoprocessing libraries.
  *   WhiteboxTools can serves as an analytical back-end for other GIS and remote sensing software (e.g. the QGIS Whitebox for Processing plugin<https://plugins.bruy.me/processing-whitebox.html>).
  *   It's written in a cross-platform programming language (+118,000 lines of Rust) and compiled to highly efficient native code. This is one of the biggest differences between WhiteboxTools and Whitebox GAT.

  *   WhiteboxTools is a small (8Mb zip file) stand-alone application with no external dependencies.

I hope that you find these tools useful and, as always, feedback is welcome and bugs can be reported through GitHub.

Regards,


John Lindsay, PhD

Room 346, Hutt Building,

Dept. of Geography, Environment and Geomatics,

The University of Guelph,

E-mail: jlindsay at uoguelph.ca

Phone: (519) 824-4120 ext. 56074

Web: http://www.uoguelph.ca/geography/faculty/lindsay-john

Research page: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/

Whitebox GAT: http://www.uoguelph.ca/~hydrogeo/Whitebox/index.html
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