Accessing and Visualizing Digital Elevation Models with Python

A tutorial in Python with openly available DEM data

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This work was co-authored with Mahdi Fayazbakhsh and Kai Kaiser. All errors and omissions are those of the author(s).

Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) represent a 3D surface model of the terrain. It represents a continuous topographic elevation…