<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Invert the DEM by multiplying all values by -1 and adding the maximum original height value. This makes the maximum height 0 and everything less than that increasingly greater than 0<div><br></div><div>Run r.watershed on the inverted DEM choosing stream segments as output.</div><div><br></div><div>The stream segments from the inverted DEM are your ridgelines. You can keep them in raster or thin them (r.thin) and convert them to vector (r.to.vect).</div><div><br></div><div>I've copied the GRASS user list again because this is a general question that others might be interested in.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jun 11, 2012, at 7:29 PM, Thomaswplee wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>How to make ridge vector line with reversed accumlated flow as in watershed?<div><br></div><div>Still reverse DEM plus vectorization of ridge raster?</div><div><br></div><div>Thomas</div><br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>Subject: Re: ridge extraction from DEM <br>From: Michael Barton <<a href="mailto:michael.barton@asu.edu">michael.barton@asu.edu</a>> <br>To: <a href="mailto:thomaslee@starvision.com.hk">thomaslee@starvision.com.hk</a> <br>CC: grass-user grass-user <<a href="mailto:grass-user@lists.osgeo.org">grass-user@lists.osgeo.org</a>> <br><br><br><div style="word-break:break-all;">Thomas,<br><br>I don't remember posting anything about r.ppa. I did a quick search and found a post by Māris Nartišs (<a href="http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2005-October/030883.html">http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-user/2005-October/030883.html</a>).<br><br>r.param.scale will extract ridges. You will need to adjust the optional parameters (especially processing window size) to get the ridges you want. <br><br>An alternative method is to invert the DEM and run r.watershed on it, extracting the 'streams'. The 'streams' of the inverted DEM will follow ridges.<br><br>Michael<br><br><br><br>On Jun 11, 2012, at 9:26 AM, <<a href="mailto:thomaslee@starvision.com.hk">thomaslee@starvision.com.hk</a>><br> wrote:<br><br>> Dear Michael,<br>> <br>> I am interested in ridge extraction but not able to find the r.ppa mentioned by <br>> <br>> <br>> Chang, Y.C., Frigeri, A., 2002. Implementing the automatic<br>> extraction of ridge and valley axes using the PPA algorithm in<br>> Grass GIS. In: Open Source Free Software GIS GRASS<br>> Users Conference, 2002.<br>> <br>> <br>> Implementing the automatic extraction of ridge and<br>> valley axes using the PPA algorithm in Grass GIS<br>> <br>> <br>> Do you have any solution since your message in 2007 about ridge extraction.<br><br>_____________________<br>C. Michael Barton<br>Visiting Scientist, Integrated Science Program<br>National Center for Atmospheric Research &<br>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research<br>303-497-2889 (voice)<br><br>Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity <br>Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change<br>Arizona State University<br>www: <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton">http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton</a>, <a href="http://csdc.asu.edu">http://csdc.asu.edu</a><br><br></div> </div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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