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WhiteboxTools

WhiteboxTools is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform which includes more than 450 tools. Many tools operate in parallel, taking full advantage of your multi-core processor.

Available

Only WhiteboxTools Open Core tools are available on Puhti. WhiteboxTools is available with following versions:

  • 2.2.0 in the geoconda module
  • 2.1.0 in the WhiteboxTools module

Usage

Load a module, select module based on version:

module load geoconda

Or module load whiteboxtools if you want to use the older version.

To check whiteboxtools version 

whitebox_tools --version

Here is an example of calculating Hillshade for a 10m DEM. 

whitebox_tools -r=Hillshade -v -i=/appl/data/geo/mml/dem10m/2019/M3/M34/M3444.tif -o=test_hillshade.tif --azimuth=315.0 --altitude=30.0

Note

Whiteboxtools seem to have problems with Finnish NLS lidar files.

Example batch job script

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --account=<YOUR-PROJECT>
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --partition=small
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
#SBATCH --mem=2G

module load whiteboxtools
whitebox_tools -r=Hillshade -v -i=/appl/data/geo/mml/dem10m/2019/M3/M34/M3444.tif -o=test_hillshade.tif --azimuth=315.0 --altitude=30.0

License and acknowledgement

The WhiteboxTools open-core platform is distributed under the MIT license

Please acknowledge CSC and Geoportti in your publications, it is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write "The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support".

References