Relief Shade is a stand alone product designed to produce beautiful shaded relief images from digital elevation models (DEM). A shaded relief image is created by using a computer-generated artificial light source to illuminate the elevation data and produce a pattern of light and shadows. Slopes facing the light appear bright, while those facing away are shaded. On flatter surfaces, the pattern of light and shadows can reveal subtle features in the terrain.
Using Relief Shade the process of creating a shaded relief image from a DEM dataset is intuitive and straightforward: Open the input DEM dataset then click the 'OK' button to generate either a bitmap or a tiff shaded relief image. All the parameters are provided by default. They can be, however, changed by the user.
Relief Shade provides an option to generate a georeference file for the output shaded relief image. The user has the choice between creating a .tfw file or a MapInfo table (.tab) file. The user has also control of the colors look of the shaded relief image by defining a color scheme.
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Relief Shade supports most of the industry DEM formats. These formats are:
Format |
Extension |
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ArcGIS grids |
*.adf |
ArcInfo ASCII grids |
*.txt |
Surfer grids |
*.grd |
PCI |
*.pix |
Vertical Mapper grids |
*.grd |
MapInfo grid (requires MapInfo) |
*.mig |
Idrisi grids |
*.img, *.rst |
SRTM files |
*.hgt |
ESRI BIL |
*.bil |
GTOPO30 files |
*.bil |
Erdas Imagine |
*.img |
USGS SDTS DEM |
*.ddf |
USGS ASCII DEM |
*.dem |
Military Elevations (DTED) |
*.dt0, *.dt1 |
Japanese DEM |
*.mem |
PCI Raw |
*.raw |
Grid eXchange format |
*.gxf |
Tiff and Geotiff |
*.tif, *.tiff, *.gtif |
Examples of shaded relief images created using Relief Shade:
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