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Created: January10, 2024 Updated: January10, 2024
GIS Terrain Loader Pro is able to smooth terrain surface and heights; this operation is useful when we find that the terrains was generated with unwanted jaggies, terraces, banding and non-smoothed terrain heights.
Step 01 :
Step 01 :
In this example we have a DEM coming from Lidar data with unwanted jaggies.
To smooth the terrain surface enable 'Terrain Surface Smoother'.
Set 'Smooth Factor' value.
Changing the surface smoother value to higher means more smoothing on surface while 1 value means minimum smoothing.
Terrain Without Smoothing
Terrain With Surface Smoothing
Step 02 :
Step 02 :
If we have some banding and non-smoothed terrain heights we can use terrain 'Height Smoother'.
Note that more smoothing steps result in more washed away surfaces and obviously losing some high frequency details.
To smooth the terrain Height enable 'Terrain Height Smoother'.
Set 'Height Smooth Factor' value.
Terrain Without Height Smoothing
Terrain With Height Smoothing
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