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    This document discusses two common methods for categorizing terrain ruggedness: the relief method and the surface area method. The relief method calculates the difference between focal maximum and minimum elevation values. The surface area method involves: 1) dividing a slope map by 100, 2) converting slopes to angles using arctangent, and 3) calculating a surface area factor using cosine, which provides an inverse ruggedness index value. Both methods can serve as indices for ruggedness when comparing terrains.

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    This document discusses two common methods for categorizing terrain ruggedness: the relief method and the surface area method. The relief method calculates the difference between focal maximum and minimum elevation values. The surface area method involves: 1) dividing a slope map by 100, 2) converting slopes to angles using arctangent, and 3) calculating a surface area factor using cosine, which provides an inverse ruggedness index value. Both methods can serve as indices for ruggedness when comparing terrains.

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    This document discusses two common methods for categorizing terrain ruggedness: the relief method and the surface area method. The relief method calculates the difference between focal maximum and minimum elevation values. The surface area method involves: 1) dividing a slope map by 100, 2) converting slopes to angles using arctangent, and 3) calculating a surface area factor using cosine, which provides an inverse ruggedness index value. Both methods can serve as indices for ruggedness when comparing terrains.

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    This document discusses two common methods for categorizing terrain ruggedness: the relief method and the surface area method. The relief method calculates the difference between focal maximum and minimum elevation values. The surface area method involves: 1) dividing a slope map by 100, 2) converting slopes to angles using arctangent, and 3) calculating a surface area factor using cosine, which provides an inverse ruggedness index value. Both methods can serve as indices for ruggedness when comparing terrains.

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    Ruggedness Index

    Background
    Two methods are commonly cited for categorizing the ruggedness of terrain: 1) Relief 2) Surface area

    Relief method
    The method proposed by Riley et. al. is essentially a neighborhood operation: ABS( Focal maximum of DEM Focal minimum of DEM), where ABS is the absolute value to insure a positive relative difference.

    Surface area method using raster data


    This approach is based on the following article by Joseph Berry: http://www.innovativegis.com/basis/mapanalysis/topic11/topic11.htm This model has three steps: 1) dividing a slope map using the ArcSIE extension by 100, 2) converting slope to an angle using Arctan 3) calculating a surface area factor by taking the cosine of map 2 The output value from step 3 could be used directly as an index for ruggedness. There will be an inverse relationship between ruggedness and the grid value. Surface area could also be estimated by dividing the planimetric area of each grid cell by the output of step 3. This will not be as accurate as the surface area determined from a TIN. It is a quick way to get a close estimate, as an example, this area in southern New Mexico estimated surface area within 98% of a TIN:

    Surface Area Factor model https://sharepoint.gru.wvu.edu/sites/digital_soils/DSM%20Tools/ArcGIS%20Models%20and %20Scripts/surface_area_for_9_2.tbx


    Add the surface area toolbox Double-click the Surface Area factor model Enter your slope map, which needs to be in percent

    Output will be the surface area factor map To calculate Surface Area Open the Divide Tool in the Math Toolbox Value 1 equals the planimetric area of one grid cell (x2), in this case 10m grid = 100m2 Value 2 is the Surface area factor map, the output of Cosine operation

    Comparisons
    When used as an index for ruggedness, the methods are interchangeable.

    References
    Riley, S.J., DeGloria, S.D., Elliot, R. 1999. A terrain ruggedness index that quantifies topographic heterogeneity. Intermountain journal of Sciences. 5, 23-27.

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