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Warning!

Puhti and Mahti will be decommissioned after Roihu becomes available. Users should clean up unnecessary files and move any required data by the end of August 2026. See the Roihu data preparation instructions for details.

Puhti scratch is very full: keep only active data there and move or delete everything else. No new Puhti scratch quota will be granted.

WhiteboxTools

Whitebox Next Gen is an advanced geospatial data analysis platform which includes more than 700 tools. Many tools operate in parallel, taking full advantage of your multi-core processor.

Available

Only WhiteboxTools Open Core tools are available on Puhti. WhiteboxTools is available with following versions:

  • 2.4.0 in 3.14.3 geoconda module, includes also Whitebox Workflows for Python.
  • 2.3.5 in 3.11.9 geoconda module
  • 2.2.0 in 3.10.x geoconda modules
  • 2.1.0 in the WhiteboxTools module

Usage

Load a module, select module based on version:

module load geoconda

Or module load whiteboxtools if you want to use the older version.

To check whiteboxtools version 

whitebox_tools --version

Here is an example of calculating Hillshade for a 10m DEM. 

whitebox_tools -r=Hillshade -v -i=/appl/data/geo/mml/dem10m/2019/M3/M34/M3444.tif -o=test_hillshade.tif --azimuth=315.0 --altitude=30.0

Note

Whiteboxtools seem to have problems with Finnish NLS lidar files.

Example batch job script

#!/bin/bash
#SBATCH --account=<YOUR-PROJECT>
#SBATCH --cpus-per-task=1
#SBATCH --partition=small
#SBATCH --time=00:10:00
#SBATCH --mem=2G

module load whiteboxtools
whitebox_tools -r=Hillshade -v -i=/appl/data/geo/mml/dem10m/2019/M3/M34/M3444.tif -o=test_hillshade.tif --azimuth=315.0 --altitude=30.0

License

The WhiteboxTools open-core platform is distributed under the MIT OR Apache-2.0 license. The full WhiteboxTools license

Citation

Lindsay, J.B. (2026). Whitebox Next Generation [Software]. Whitebox Geospatial Inc.

Acknowledgement

Please acknowledge CSC and Geoportti in your publications, it is important for project continuation and funding reports. As an example, you can write "The authors wish to thank CSC - IT Center for Science, Finland (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072531) and the Open Geospatial Information Infrastructure for Research (Geoportti, urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072513) for computational resources and support".

Installation

Whiteboxtools are part of Geoconda installation.

References