Concept information
Preferred term
shaded relief
Definition
- Shaded relief, or hill shading, is the graphical depiction of a surface in such a way as to highlight the apparent three-dimensional variation in its shape. Typically, shaded relief maps are used to depict natural terrain, often in combination with other topographic information, such as rivers, land cover, and placenames. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science; Shaded Relief]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/shaded_relief
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