RichDEM

RichDEM is a set of digital elevation model (DEM) hydrologic analysis tools. RichDEM uses parallel processing and state of the art algorithms to quickly process even very large DEMs.

RichDEM offers a variety of flow metrics, such as D8 and D∞. It can flood or breach depressions. It can calculate flow accumulation, slops, curvatures, &c.

RichDEM is available as a performant C++ library, a low-dependency Python package, and a set of command-line tools.

Please cite RichDEM (see below).

Documentation

Documentation is available at richdem.readthedocs.io. The documentation is auto-generated from the many README.md files throughout the codebase and the extensive comments in the source code.