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Digital Elevation Data

A series of three images: top is a gray shaded relief, middle is a black and white contour image, and the bottom is a digital elevation model in shades of red with darker red indicating higher elevation.

Overview of Elevation Data

This article reviews some of terminology and types of elevation based datasets available to GIS.

Categories GIS Data Tags contour, DEM, Digital Elevation Data, Digital Elevation Models, gis data, LiDAR, terrain data, TIN, Triangulated Irregular Network

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