i want to calculate the shortest distance between a raster and another raster. i have a bathymetric raster and an underlying fault plane raster. for each bathy raster cell, i need to know the shortest distance to the underlying fault plane.
the bathymetry and the fault plane rasters are not planar nor horizontally level.
i am not trained in python and hope there is an existing tool that i could use (though i could learn python if i need to).
in other words: i want to know the shortest distance between each raster cell of the bathymetry data set and the underlying subduction zone fault plane. the subduction zone fault plane is not planar and dips ("not level") at angles between 10 and 45 degrees beneath the bathymetry data. there is only one fault plane i am interested in determining this distance. because the fault is dipping at an angle, the nearest distance from any location on the sea floor is not the measurement vertically down to the fault plane, but at some angle from the vertical axis. this can be done in autocad, but it has been almost a decade since i used autocad.
here is a map showing part of the area i am working on. the map shows deeper bathymetry as darker blue. the fault where it meets the sea floor is the orange line. the fault dips beneath the seafloor in the direction of the orange arrow. http://earthjay.com/sumatra/maps/gis_fault_example_20130124.pdf
