This tab manages settings for Digital Elevation Model (DEM) files and also manages Layers in expert mode.

Instructions

  1. Click on a Download Button to bring you to a website for downloading Digital Elevation files. Follow the instructions under Download Buttons for the specific site.
  2. Once the files are downloaded, drag and drop them into the blue box. This will copy them to the project folder and automatically update the Elevation Files setting.

Download Buttons

Download Elevation (EarthExplorer) - Log in, select Digital Elevation under the Data Sets tab and choose GMTED2010. Use the gmted_mea file.

Download US High Res (US National Map) - Log in, select Elevation Products, GeoTIFF format

There are numerous other Digital Elevation sources

Settings

Expert Settings

In expert mode, you can have multiple layers. A layer has a name and a set of elevation files.

The layers in a project all share the same project settings (color ramp, hillshade settings, etc.)

The elevation files for a layer should be contiguous and have the same resolution.

Running Preview or Create will only build the Active Layer

To create a new layer: just switch Active Layer and type a Layer Name, then add elevation files.