DEM: Shaded relief image plot (digital elevation model)
Pretty shaded relief map as flat image.
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Cite As
François Beauducel (2026). DEM: Shaded relief image plot (digital elevation model) (https://nl.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/36380-dem-shaded-relief-image-plot-digital-elevation-model), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved .
Acknowledgements
Inspired: Ship-Borne Lidar Kelvin-Helmholtz billow observed with lidar, shadem
General Information
- Version 2.6.0 (13.5 KB)
MATLAB Release Compatibility
- Compatible with any release
Platform Compatibility
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
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| 2.6.0 | - improves the colormap splitting between land and sea
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| 2.2.0 | - new option 'position' for tick labels
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| 2.1.0 | minor fix |
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| 2.0.0 | legend scale is now liberated from the figure colormap (thanks to Tomke Froechtenich's comment). No use of freezecolors needed to add other colormap plots. |
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| 1.10.0 | improve backward compatibility (strjoijn) |
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| 1.9.0 | - new options: 'km', 'watermark', 'fontsize', 'bordersize'
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| 1.8.0 | - improved light rendering (using surface normals instead of gradient)
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| 1.7.0 | - adds 'interp' option (fill the gaps)
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| 1.6.0 | - adds a 'lake' option
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| 1.5.0 | now accepts row/column vectors for X and/or Y. |
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| 1.4.0 | - adds basemap-style axis in decimal or lat/lon modes
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| 1.3.0 | - new landcolor.m colormap function
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| 1.2.0 | ZIP now contains landcolor.dat companion file. |
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| 1.1.0 | Optimizations: adds a decimation for large DEM grids. |
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| 1.0.0 |