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Digital terrain modeling  

Definition

  • A computer graphics software technique for converting point elevation data into a terrain model displaced as a contour map, sometimes as a three-dimensional "hill and valley" grid view of the ground surface. [www.martin.fl.us]

Entry terms

  • Digital terrain models
  • DTM
  • DTMs
  • Modeling, digital terrain
  • Models, digital terrain

Notation

  • 121870

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JLC-XKMRR0S3-8

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