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Topic: elevation

Tool Description
d.shade Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.
r.plane Creates raster plane map given dip (inclination), aspect (azimuth) and one point.
r.relief Creates shaded relief map from an elevation map (DEM).
r.shade Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.

See also the corresponding keyword for additional references:

elevation

  • d.region.grid - Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.
  • d.shade - Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.
  • r.fillnulls - Fills no-data areas in raster maps using spline interpolation.
  • r.hydro.flatten - Derive elevation of water bodies for hydro-flattening
  • r.in.aster - Georeference, rectify, and import Terra-ASTER imagery and relative DEMs using gdalwarp.
  • r.local.relief - Creates a local relief model from elevation map.
  • r.param.scale - Extracts terrain parameters from a DEM. Uses a multi-scale approach by taking fitting quadratic parameters to any size window (via least squares).
  • r.plane - Creates raster plane map given dip (inclination), aspect (azimuth) and one point.
  • r.relief - Creates shaded relief map from an elevation map (DEM).
  • r.shade - Drapes a color raster over an shaded relief or aspect map.
  • r.shaded.pca - Creates relief shades from various directions and combines them into RGB composition. The combined shades highlight terrain features which wouldn't be visible using standard shading technique.
  • r.slopeunits.clean - Clean results of r.slopeunits.create
  • r.slopeunits.create - Create a raster layer of slope units
  • r.slopeunits.metrics - Create metrics for slope units
  • r.slopeunits.optimize - Optimize inputs for slope units