Welcome to acacia’s documentation!¶
acacia
is a Python tool that produces clustered polygons from two rasters. If this seems like a general statement, it’s because it is.
Although originally designed to tak input from our other tool biota
, acacia
works the same regardless of the data you feed it.
All you need to run acacia
are:
- One raster of a given continuous quantity (e.g. biomass in 2010), representing the initial state your your data.
- One raster representing the change between your initial state and the final state of you data (e.g. change in biomass between 2010 and 2015).
Using these 2 rasters, acacia
produces polygons of significant negative change, clusters them according to their properties (both geometrical and taken from the rasters) and outputs a shapefile summarizing all these analyses, as well as a few handy figures.
acacia
offers the possibility of adding a third input in the form of a shapefile, but we’ll come to it later.
Who do I talk to?¶
Written and maintained by Guillaume Goodwin (g.c.h.goodwin@sms.ed.ac.uk) and Samuel Bowers (sam.bowers@ed.ac.uk).