Package firetools
source code
Extract numerical case histories from digital geographic landscape
history data. I(firetools) provides a simple and reproducable solution for
combining many types of digital fire prone landscape history
data and extracting numerical case histories suitable for
subsequent statistical analysis.
Greg Miller <gmill002@gmail.com>
Department of Earth Sciences
University of California, Riverside
Purpose
This toolset provides a simple and reproducable solution for
combining many types of digital fire prone landscape history
data and extracting numerical case histories suitable for
subsequent statistical analysis.
System Requirements
The toolset requires Python 2.5 or higher, Numpy 1.3 or higher,
and ESRI ArcGis 9.3 with the arcgisscripting module
Installation
Simply put the firetools folder in your Python25\Lib directory
Instructions for use
Produce a config script using the example as a template then
create a batch file or enter at the "run" prompt a command with
these three arguments using absolute paths. This will execute
the RunConfig.py with python.exe while passing your config
script to RunConfig.py as its first argument.
>> python.exe RunConfig.py YourConfig.py
Procedure Overview
The procedure can be divided into three parts. The user first
creates and defines shared aspects of the study. This includes
the study area, period and spatio-temporal grid resolution.
Next, source data series are imported. Source data types include
fire perimeters map series, static spatial data (ie elevation),
and time series (ie annual precipitation). When imports are
complete, output data is extracted and text file output and
sampled subsets are generated.
Version:
0.01
Author:
Greg Miller <gmill002@gmail.com>
License: