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whitebox (version 2.1.0)

wbt_fill_depressions: Fill depressions

Description

Fills all of the depressions in a DEM. Depression breaching should be preferred in most cases.

Usage

wbt_fill_depressions(
  dem,
  output,
  fix_flats = TRUE,
  flat_increment = NULL,
  max_depth = NULL,
  wd = NULL,
  verbose_mode = FALSE,
  compress_rasters = FALSE
)

Arguments

dem

Input raster DEM file.

output

Output raster file.

fix_flats

Optional flag indicating whether flat areas should have a small gradient applied.

flat_increment

Optional elevation increment applied to flat areas.

max_depth

Optional maximum depression depth to fill.

wd

Changes the working directory.

verbose_mode

Sets verbose mode. If verbose mode is False, tools will not print output messages.

compress_rasters

Sets the flag used by WhiteboxTools to determine whether to use compression for output rasters.

Value

Returns the tool text outputs.