DEM.Net.Core

DEM.Net.glTF

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DEM.Net

Digital Elevation Model library in C#

Elevation queries (point, polylines, heightmap, GPX)
3D export (glTF, STL)
Imagery (MapBox, OSM, Stamen) : textured 3D models and normal maps
No setup
Automatic DEM file download from openTopography.org
Fast and optimized queries

See samples here

Supported by

Supported formats and datasets

Input

GeoTIFF (JAXA AW3D, and any GeoTIFF)
HGT (Nasa SRTM)
netCDF

Output

glTF
STL

Current dev status

All incoming features are listed in the project board here : https://dev.azure.com/dem-net/elevationapi/_workitems/recentlyupdated/.
Feel free to suggest any idea you'd like to see covered here in the issues : https://github.com/dem-net/DEM.Net/issues.

SampleApp

(Work in progress) SampleApp is a Console App used for test purposes, full of samples. It's pretty messy and lacks documentation but names are self explanatory.

How do I use the API ?

Raster operations

Use elevationService.DownloadMissingFiles(DEMDataSet.AW3D30, <bbox>) to download and generate metadata for a given dataset.
Supported datasets : SRTM GL1 and GL3 (HGT files), AWD30 (GeoTIFF)
Use new RasterService().GenerateReport(DEMDataSet.AW3D30, <bounding box>) to download only necessary tiles using remote VRT file.
Use rasterService.GenerateFileMetadata(<path to file>, DEMFileFormat.GEOTIFF, false, false) to generate metada for an arbitrary file.
Use RasterService.GenerateDirectoryMetadata(samplePath);to generate metadata files for your raster tiles. These metadata files will be used as an index when querying Digital Elevation Model data.

Elevation operations

GetLineGeometryElevation
GetPointElevation

glTF export

glTFService can generate triangulated MeshPrimitives from height maps
Export to .gtlf or .glb

Sample data

Rasters from http://www.opentopography.org Dataset used is "ALOS World 3D - 30m" : http://opentopo.sdsc.edu/lidar?format=sd&platform=Satellite%20Data&collector=JAXA For development and tests, files covering France were used.
Not used yet but worth mentionning : For sea bed elevation : ETOPO1 Global Relief Model https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html

Acknowledgements / Sources

https://github.com/stefangordon/GeoTiffSharp from @stefangordon which provided a good starting point.
Pedro Sousa : http://build-failed.blogspot.fr/2014/12/processing-geotiff-files-in-net-without.html for good explanations.
Mathieu Leplatre for http://blog.mathieu-leplatre.info/drape-lines-on-a-dem-with-postgis.html
Andy9FromSpace : HGT file reader in https://github.com/Andy9FromSpace/map-elevation

Third party code and librairies

glTF : glTF2Loader and AssetGenerator : https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF
Tiff support : https://github.com/BitMiracle/libtiff.net
Serialization : https://github.com/neuecc/ZeroFormatter and https://github.com/JamesNK/Newtonsoft.Json
System.Numerics.Vectors for Vector support
GPX reader from dlg.krakow.pl

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