<div dir="ltr">(This may not be target subject matter for the list)<br><div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div style="line-height:19.8px">We're trying to figure out a good algorithm for computing topographic slope for Alaska, which is both huge and near the pole. Our DEM is currently in geographic coordinates, but we need slope over a fixed distance (change in elevation vs. horizontal meters). The issue is, there is no projection to switch this to to get an accurate set of slope calculations. Of course with degrees, the X and Y distances change over the globe -- so the horizontal distances will be variables from one window to the next. I have seen various solutions published, but I wanted to see if someone knows of a decent coded-up algorithm for this. Thoughts?</div></div></blockquote><div> <br></div></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>You don't mention specifically what dataset your DEM source is, but read carefully the accuracy statements in the documentation, and the counter answers on the Stack Exchange article. For instance, if you are using GTOPO30 , see Section 6.1<span style="color:black"> <span></span>Data Sources of the <a href="https://lta.cr.usgs.gov/sites/default/files/GTOPO30_README.doc">Readme</a><br><br></span></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>You would probably better off using one of the original sources, rather than calculate on top of the already considerable distortion. Also there are DEM collections available for various areas of interest, like the <a href="http://www.pgc.umn.edu/elevation/stereo">Stereo-Photogrammetric Digital Elevation/Surface Model</a> from the </font></span></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Polar Geospatial Center. You don't mention where the AOI or what scale you are interested, but there are a considerable number of others out there ( <a href="http://nsidc.org/data/dems/datasets.html">http://nsidc.org/data/dems/datasets.html</a> )<br><br></font></span></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font>Michael Patrick</font></span></span><a name="h17"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"></span></a><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:black"></span></div><div class="gmail_extra">
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