GEOG 361, C. Brewer (Topic list)

Relief Representation
Reading in Slocum: Chapter 20
Other excellent reources: www.reliefshading.com, www.shadedrelief.com

Shaded relief
relief shading, analytical hill shading, hillshade, terrain shading, plastic...

tom patterson's wigwam from Tom Patterson

DEM elevation versus relief shading:

Tom Patterson's grayscale from Tom Patterson

Options in software
(made with DLG Viewer using Bushkill PA quadrangle 30m DEM)

Sun angle: 315
135
225
45
  invert
  exag
 
Ambient light: no
med
   
Sun altitude: 25
45
65
85
         
Hypsometry  Y-G
spectral
   
Hypso. & shading: Y-G shaded
spectral shaded
R-Y shaded
1 hue
Flooding: some
more
   


Tom Patterson combines shaded relief, vegetation category colors, and some imagery textures in Natural Earth II product:

Tom Patterson's Natural Earth, Africa example

Cross-blended hypsometric tints with plan oblique relief:
Example cross-blended hypso from Tom Patterson, e.g., NW US

Tom Patterson's cross-blended hypsometric tints - legend

"Map legend: Lowland colors in the first three elevation scales (from left) depict generalized environments. Above 1,000 meters the colors are identical and rather conventional. The polar scale uses unrelated colors and is shorter because no peaks exceed 5,000 meters in these regions."
From Tom Patterson on cross-blended hypsometric tints

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