Opensource GIS project leveraging NVIDIA CUDA and pyCuda
Students: Alex Fuerst, Charlie Kazer, Billy Hoffman
A command line tool and plugin for QGIS that leverages a CUDA enabled GPU for raster calculations. Currently supports calculating slope, aspect, and hillshade from an elevation file.
Command line tool, and stand-alone GUI work on both Windows and Linux with proper dependencies installed. The QGIS plugin is currently only compatible with Linux.
Boost.Python (Part of the Boost Libraries)
PyQt4 (Only needed for stand-alone GUI version)
This list may not include all of the dependencies the above programs require. Instructions on where to download dependedncies from and some installation tips are in Setup-instructions.txt.
The gpustruct class included here was taken from another git repo. Thanks to OSU!
Simply download this git repository to your local machine and put them wherever you want. If your CUDA installation folder isn't already set on your PATH, the plugin may not work properly. If you want to use the QGIS plugin with a GUI prompt, copy the folder "CUDARaster" to the QGIS plugin folder.
On Linux the default location is
/home/username/.qgis/python/plugins
In Windows the default location is
C:\Users\username\\.qgis\python\plugins
This can be used via a command line interface or QGIS plugin.
Plugin: Has a simple GUI interface for chosing input and output files and calculating slope, aspect and hillshade. The plugin supports choosing between files on disk and layers already loaded into QGIS. Currently using active layers isn't completely accurate and can not be guaranteed to calculate everything properly.
Command line:
python scheduler.py input_file output_1 func_1 output_2 func_2 ... output_n func_n