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CurvatureVariable Name ⤴

Curvature of a DEM measures the shape or curvature of the slope. A part of a surface can be concave or convex; you can tell that by looking at the curvature value. The curvature is calculated by computing the second derivative of the surface.

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Term

curvature

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http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/10.3/manage-data/raster-and-images/curvature-function.htm

Note

Added to support Critical Zone Observatory (CZO) data use cases.