Paulo:
>> ( I would like to have a prominence tool in grass,
Hamish:
> see this earlier thread:
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/19467/
>
> still searching for a method to calculate it..
perhaps http://www.peaklist.org/theory/theory.html
Markus:
Is this the code?
http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/grass-dev/2008-July/038899.html
I don't think so, I think more of a r.watershed/r.drain/r.cost style
of approach is needed. ie it has to search far an wide for the other
mountain peaks.
link from earlier post:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic_prominence
Hamish