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Title: WFM 6202: Remote Sensing and GIS in Water Management


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WFM 6202 Remote Sensing and GIS in Water
Management
Part-B Geographic Information System (GIS)
Lecture-7 Digital Terrain Model
  • Akm Saiful Islam

Institute of Water and Flood Management
(IWFM) Bangladesh University of Engineering and
Technology (BUET)
January, 2008
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DEM
  • A DEM (digital elevation model) is digital
    representation of topographic surface with the
    elevation or ground height above any geodetic
    datum. Followings are widely used DEM in GIS

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DTM
  • A DTM (digital terrain model) is digital
    representation of terrain features including
    elevation, slope, aspect, drainage and other
    terrain attributes.
  • Usually a DTM is derived from a DEM or elevation
    data.
  • several terrain features including the
    following DTMs.
  • Slope and Aspect
  • Drainage network
  • Catchment area
  • Shading
  • Shadow
  • Slope stability

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Examples of DTM
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1. Slope and Aspect
  • (i) Slope
  • The steepest slope (s) and the direction from the
    east (?) can be computed from 3 x 3 matrix.

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Slope calculation
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Slope calculation
  • Slope is defined by a plane tangent to a
    topographic surface, as modelled by the DEM at a
    point (Burrough, 1986).
  • Slope is classified as a vector as such it has a
    quantity (gradient) and a direction (aspect).
  • Slope gradient is defined as the maximum rate of
    change in altitude (tan ?)

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Example Slope from elevation data
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  • (ii) Aspect
  • The aspect that is, the slope faced to azimuth is
    180 opposite to the direction of q

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Figure 1. Slope components, note that slope
gradient can be express in percent or in degrees
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Aspect calculation
  • Aspect identifies the steepest downslope
    direction from each cell to its neighbors. It can
    be thought of as slope direction or the compass
    direction a hill faces.
  • It is measured clockwise in degrees from 0 (due
    north) to 360, (again due north, coming full
    circle). The value of each cell in an aspect
    dataset indicates the direction the cell's slope
    faces. Flat areas having no downslope direction
    are given a value of -1.

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Example aspect from the elevation data
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2. Drainage Network and Watershed
  • The lowest point out of the eight neighbors is
    compared with the height of the central point to
    determine the flow direction.

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Surface Specific points
  • is assigned if the height of the central point
    is higher than the one of the eight neighbors and
    - if lower.
  • A peak can be detected if all the eight neighbors
    are lower.
  • A pit or sink is formed if all the eight
    neighbors are higher
  • A pass can be extracted if the and - alternate
    around the central point with at least two
    complete cycle.

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4. Shade and 5.Shadow
  • Shade is defined as reduced reflection depending
    on the angle between the terrain surface and the
    incident light such as the sun.
  • Shadow is projected areas that the incident light
    cannot reach because of visual hindrance of
    objects on terrain relief

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Hill Shading
  • The effect of hill shading on the assumption
    of an ideally diffused reflecting surface (called
    Lambertian surface) can be computed as follows
  • Relative shading cos ? nxsx nysy nzsz
    1.0
  • where ? angle between incident light vector s
    and surface normal n

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Altitude
  • The altitude is the slope or angle of the
    illumination source above the horizon. The units
    are in degrees, from 0 (on the horizon) to 90
    degrees (overhead). The default is 45 degrees.

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Azimuth
  • The azimuth is the angular direction of the sun,
    measured from north in clockwise degrees from 0
    to 360. An azimuth of 90 is east. The default is
    315 (NW).

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Hill shading from elevation data
  • The hillshade below has an azimuth of 315 and an
    altitude of 45 degrees.

20
Examples A slope and hillshade maps of Glacier
National Park
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Using hill shading for display
  • By placing an elevation raster on top of a
    created hillshade, then making the elevation
    raster transparent, you can create realistic
    images of the landscape.

Hillshade elevation
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Generation of Contour Lines
  • Contour lines are one of the terrain features
    which represent the relief of the terrain with
    the same height. There are two types of contour
    lines in visualizing GIS data
  • Vector Line DrawingIn case when the terrain
    points are given in grid, the simplest method is
    to divide the square cell into two triangles
    mechanically.
  • Raster ImageContour image with painted contour
    terraces, belts or lines instead of vector lines
    will be generated in raster form.

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Interpolation of Elevation from Contours
  • Digital elevation model (DEM) is very often
    generated by measuring terrain points along
    contour lines using a digitizer. DEM with contour
    points should be provided with an algorithm
    interpolate elevation at arbitrary points. There
    are several interpolation methods as follows.
  • Profile MethodA profile passing through the
    point to be interpolated will be generated and
    linear or spline curve applied.
  • Proportional Distance MethodAccording to
    distance to two adjacent contour lines, the
    elevation is interpolated proportionally with
    respect to the distance ratio.
  • Window MethodA circular window is set up around
    a point to be interpolated and adjacent terrain
    points are used to interpolate the value using
    second order or third order polynomials.
  • TIN MethodTINs are generated using terrain
    points along contour lines.

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Interpolation Methods
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Examples A Digital Elevation Model and
associated contour map of Glacier Nat'l Park
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Triangulated Irregular Network (TIN)
  • Triangulated irregular network or TIN is a DEM
    with a network of triangles at randomly located
    terrain points.

Contouring of TINs is based on the following
procedure. step 1 find the intersect of contour
and a side. step 2 assign the "reference point"
with the symbol r to the vertex above the contour
height and the "sub-point" with the symbols to
the vertex below the contour height. step 3
shift over to the transversing to find the third
vertex in the triangle by checking whether it is
a reference point (r) or sub-point (s).
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Example TIN Creation
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Automated Generation of DEM
  • Automated generation of DEM is achieved by
    photogrammetric methods based on stereo aerial
    photography and satellite stereo imagery.
  • Parallax is defined as difference between left
    and right photographs or image coordinates. The
    higher the elevation is, the bigger the parallax
    is. If the parallax is constant, equal elevation
    or contour lines will be produced.
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