Should the multiscale tools produce multiple outputs? about whitebox-tools

[jblindsay]

Each of the multiscale land-surface parameter (LSP) tools output scale-mosaics, i.e., the measure of the LSP for a particular pixel in the output raster is some kind of scaled optimum, e.g., the maximum absolute value of the LSP measured across a range of scales. If you would like to create multiple scaled outputs, simply run the tools multiple times using single scale parameter inputs, rather than scale ranges. I agree that in the case of the MultiscaleRoughness tool, the documentation should be much clearer, although, most of the other multiscale tools are actually quite clear on this, I think. I will work on improving the MultiscaleRoughness documentation. Most of the tools also output not a single raster, but two rasters, where the first raster is the scale mosaic and the second raster is the scale value (i.e., the scale at which the optimum LSP value was identified).

[DOSull]

OK. Thanks for the clarification - the help information could certainly be a bit more explicit about what the outputs are.

Perhaps also worth knowing (if you didn't already!) that on inspection of a scale output when I set max_scale = 5 and min_scale = 1 that the numerical range in that output is from 1 to 4 only, so this tool may be non-inclusive over the specified scale-range, similar to the concern raised in #107.

Correction I checked with a different scale range, and apparently it is doing inclusive range. Ignore the reference to a previous issue above.