{"categories":[{"label":"Scientific/Engineering","url":"https://skillfed.io/packages/category/scientific-engineering/8"}],"enrichment":{"capability":"Provides an interactive graphical interface for WhiteboxTools geospatial analysis operations within Jupyter notebooks, exposing tools for GIS analysis, remote sensing, terrain analysis, and LiDAR processing.","skillfed_tags":["geospatial-analysis","jupyter-widget","gis-tools"],"use_cases":["Perform interactive GIS workflows (buffering, cost-distance, reclassification) in a Jupyter notebook without command-line tools.","Conduct terrain analysis and hydrological modeling (watershed delineation, flow accumulation) through a point-and-click interface.","Process and analyze LiDAR point clouds (segmentation, interpolation, outlier detection, ground classification) interactively.","Apply remote sensing image processing (enhancement, mosaicing, filtering, classification) within a notebook environment.","Explore geospatial data analysis workflows in Google Colab or JupyterLab without installing desktop GIS software."],"what_it_does":"Whiteboxgui wraps WhiteboxTools\u2014a geospatial analysis platform with 518 tools\u2014and exposes them through an interactive Jupyter notebook interface. It lets you perform GIS operations (cost-distance analysis, buffering, reclassification), remote sensing tasks (image enhancement, mosaicing, filtering, k-means classification), hydrological analysis (flow accumulation, watershed delineation, stream networks), terrain analysis (slope, curvature, hillshading), and LiDAR processing (point cloud segmentation, interpolation, classification) without writing command-line code.\n\nThe package depends on ipywidgets, ipytree, and ipyfilechooser to build the interactive UI, and on whitebox to call the underlying analysis engine. It is designed for Jupyter environments and is not a cartographic or visualization tool\u2014it serves as an analytical backend. However, the package has been abandoned since 2023-04-05 with no maintenance activity, creating uncertainty about compatibility with current Jupyter and dependency versions.","worth_installing":"Yes, if you need an interactive Jupyter interface to WhiteboxTools and can tolerate maintenance risk. The package has low install friction and no known vulnerabilities. However, the abandoned status since 2023-04-05 means you should verify compatibility with your current Jupyter and dependency versions before relying on it for production work. Suitable for exploration and learning; less suitable for long-term production pipelines."},"id":"whiteboxgui","links":{"html":"https://skillfed.io/packages/whiteboxgui","md":"https://skillfed.io/packages/whiteboxgui.md","pypi":"https://pypi.org/project/whiteboxgui/"},"maintenance":{"status":"abandoned"},"meta":{"latest_release":"2023-03-29","license_spdx":null,"license_treatment":"permissive","name":"whiteboxgui","python_support":"supports_current","summary":"An interactive GUI for whitebox-tools in a Jupyter-based environment"},"popularity":{"monthly_downloads":95443,"position":13265,"tier":"top_15000"},"security":{"n_vulnerabilities":0},"version":"2.3.0"}