Dem Python Packages

xdem

Analysis of digital elevation models and elevation point clouds

py3dep

A part of HyRiver software stack for getting topography data within the US through 3D Elevation Program (3DEP)

peclet-dem

GPU discrete-element method (XPBD) with SDF point-shell collision for dense particle packing; part of the Peclet suite

peclet

Peclet — GPU-accelerated, MPI-parallel codes for transport phenomena (CFD, DEM, Voronoi) on a shared Kokkos + block-decomposition foundation

peclet-cu13

Peclet — GPU-accelerated, MPI-parallel codes for transport phenomena (CFD, DEM, Voronoi) on a shared Kokkos + block-decomposition foundation

peclet-dem-cu13

GPU discrete-element method (XPBD) with SDF point-shell collision for dense particle packing; part of the Peclet suite

yade-mcp

MCP server connecting AI agents to YADE — run DEM simulations through natural conversation

compas-lmgc90

COMPAS friendly binding/wrapper for LMGC90

geokachel

Official German open elevation, surface, building and point-cloud data — one interface, all sixteen Bundesländer, with the credit each licence requires.

srtm

⚡ Ultra-fast SRTM elevation library in Rust - 260,934x faster than Python alternatives. Python bindings available via PyO3. Sub-microsecond query latency.

abovepy

Kentucky's KyFromAbove program provides statewide 2ft DEMs, 3-inch orthoimagery, 3-inch oblique imagery, and COPC LiDAR point clouds — all publicly available on S3 with a STAC API for discovery. abovepy gives you Pythonic access to all of it, plus server-side terrain analysis via TiTiler. No credentials required.

topopyscale

TopoPyScale: a Python library to perform simplistic climate downscaling at the hillslope scale

compas-dem

COMPAS Models for Discrete element Modelling

pdemtools

Conveniently search, download, and process ArcticDEM and REMA products

suomigeodata

Downloading and analyzing geospatial data from Finland, that is Suomi.

rio-rgbify-merge

Encode rasters as Terrain RGB and merge several terrain sources into a single tileset. A rasterio plugin, forked from mapbox/rio-rgbify.

srtm-rs

⚡ Ultra-fast SRTM elevation library in Rust - 260,934x faster than Python alternatives. Python bindings available via PyO3. Sub-microsecond query latency.

floodpath

Modular Python pipeline for HAND-based flood inundation and damage estimation — from a (lat, lon) point and rainfall to a per-cell flood depth and damage map.

scarplet

Topographic edge detection of fault scarps and other landforms in digital elevation data

digital-rivers

DEM and raster data processing

ausdem

Fetch Australian DEM data from Geoscience Australia WCS services as xarray arrays

oroscope

Code to search for sites for high-energy astroparticle detectors, physics- and geography-driven, including for high-energy cosmic neutrinos, cosmic rays, gamma rays

pygran

A DEM toolkit for rapid simulation & quantitative analysis of granular systems

dem-shadows

Simulate shadows using a digital elevation model (DEM)