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Slope Analysis: Urban Studies

This document discusses using TNTmips software to perform slope analysis for urban studies and site selection. It describes how to create a digital elevation model (DEM) from contour lines, compute slope from the DEM, and generate a thematic slope layer by categorizing slopes into intervals. The thematic slope layer can then be used for site selection analysis and converted to a vector object for other uses.

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Slope Analysis: Urban Studies

This document discusses using TNTmips software to perform slope analysis for urban studies and site selection. It describes how to create a digital elevation model (DEM) from contour lines, compute slope from the DEM, and generate a thematic slope layer by categorizing slopes into intervals. The thematic slope layer can then be used for site selection analysis and converted to a vector object for other uses.

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Urban Studies

Slope Analysis
The powerful interpretive features of TNTmips expand the use of contour lines from simply making topographic maps to
include wider applications, such as in the field of urban studies. Slope analysis is an important component of site selection
analysis and the thematic slope layer needed for this analysis can be easily created using a series of processes in TNTmips.
A thematic slope layer is composed of slope interval categories derived from a slope layer. Another use of slope layer is
discussed on the color plate entitled Urban Studies: Site Selection Analysis.
• Acquire contour lines: The data of interest may be acquired in various forms. It is
important to have a GIS application that is capable of processing the data that is avail-
able. In this example, the contour lines of Grant township in Lancaster County, NE were
obtained from the City of Lincoln and Lancaster County Information Systems Map Shop
website (http://ims.ci.lincoln.ne.us/gisweb/) in Arc/Info “Export” (E00) vector format.
These contour lines were imported into TNTmips using the Import process.
• Create DEM using the contour lines: The Surface Fitting operation in Process/
Surface Modeling provides an easy way to create a DEM. When the input vector object
Vector contour lines
contains elevation contours, the Lines/Edges panel is enabled in the Surface Modeling
window and if the input object is 3D, Object Z is the default selection on the Value option
button. In this example, the input vector object is not 3D but the contour lines are
associated with a table that contains the elevation field values. If the input object is 2D,
Query is the default on the Value option menu. The query simply identifies the table and
field that contain the elevation value. More information on Surface Modeling can be
found in the Surface Modeling tutorial booklet .
• Compute slope: The Process/Raster/Elevation/Slope, Aspect and Shading process
computes all three raster types in a single pass through the input DEM. You can also
choose just one or two of these output raster types. The cell values of the slope raster
DEM raster object
may be expressed as percentages or degrees. Percentages are used in this example.
• Generate slope intervals: Process/GeoFormula
is a scripting environment that lets you create a new
raster object composed of slope intervals. Using
GeoFormula, you can generate slope intervals that
designate the areas with a slope less than 10%, from
10–20%, from 20–30% and greater than 30%.
The new raster object that was
created by GeoFormula can
Slope raster object
The thematic
be used in different ways. In
slope layer the illustrations at the left, the thematic slope layer created by
illustrated is the
raster object
GeoFormula is displayed in a layout. There are various ways
created by the of using the thematic slope layer in site selection analysis. The
GeoFormula
process,
Process/Convert/Raster to Vector/Auto-Boundaries process
displayed using is a useful tool when a thematic slope layer is required as a
a color map to
indicate slope
vector object. Also, generating Threshold or Raster Expres-
range. sion regions provides an easy way to use a thematic slope
layer to make selections from other layers interactively.

MicroImages, Inc. • TNTgis - Advanced Software for Geospatial Analysis


Phone +1 402 477 9554 • Support +1 402 477 9562 • [email protected] • www.microimages.com • March 2005

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