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Fourier Frequency Analysis of DEM
May 2020

Python code for DEM noise analysis using 2D DFT

This repository is intended for the spectral analysis of gridded topographic digital elevation models (DEMs) as presented in:

  • Purinton, B., and Bookhagen, B.: Validation of digital elevation models (DEMs) and geomorphic metrics on the southern Central Andean Plateau, Earth Surface Dynamics, 2017. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-5-211-2017

A walk through example is provided in the ipython notebook example_analysis.ipynb

Note: This code was originally developed as a MATLABTM repository at: https://github.com/bpurinton/DEM_fourier_noise

Original source

This code was largely translated from Taylor Perron's 2DSpecTools package for MATLABTM available at http://web.mit.edu/perron/www/downloads.html

For background on this spectral analysis procedure and the paper that spurred this analysis refer to:

  • Perron, J. T., Kirchner, J. W., and Dietrich, W. E.: Spectral signatures of characteristic spatial scales and nonfractal structure in landscapes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 113, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JF000866