Relief Shader 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 Shader 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 a Geotiff shaded relief image. All the parameters are provided by default. They can be, however, changed by the user.
Relief Shader can be downloaded
Relief Shader supports most of the industry DEM formats. These formats are:
| Format | Extension |
|---|---|
| ACE2 DEM | *.ACE2 |
| ASCII Gridded XYZ | *.xyz |
| ArcInfo Export E00 Grid | *.e00 |
| Binary Terrain | *.bt |
| DTED | *.dt0, *.dt1 |
| ESRI ArcGIS Binary Grid | *.adf |
| ESRI ASCII Grid | *.txt |
| ESRI BIL | *.bil |
| Geosoft eXchange File | *.gxf |
| Geotiff | *.tif, *.tiff |
| GRASS ASCII Grid | *.txt |
| Japanese DEM | *.mem |
| PCIDISK Format | *.pix |
| Shuttle Radara Topography Mission | *.hgt |
| Surfer ASCII or Binary Grid | *.grd |
| USGS DEM | *.dem |
| USGS SDTS DEM | *.ddf |
| Vertical Mapper Numeric Grid | *.grd |
