Published: Jan 19, 2015 by Tom Hengl
Short title: transform
Inputs: Slope raster or curvature raster; any other variables with skewed or long-tailed distributions
Outputs: Normalized slope or curvature raster; a text file informing about transformation used and new skewness/kurtosis.
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Purpose and use:
Automated procedures are developed to alleviate long tails in frequency distributions of morphometric variables. They minimize the skewness of slope gradient frequency distributions, and modify the kurtosis of profile and plan curvature distributions towards that of the Gaussian (normal) model. Box-Cox (for slope) and arctangent (for curvature) transformations are used. The transforms are applicable to morphometric variables and many others with skewed or long-tailed distributions. It is suggested that such transformations should be routinely applied in all parametric analyses of long-tailed variables. Our Box-Cox and curvature automated transformations are based on a Python script, implemented as an easy-to-use script tool in ArcGIS.
Programming environment: Python
Status of work: Public Domain