topic_elevation(1grass)

✨ Topic: elevation ✨

okay so bestie, this is the GRASS User's Manual topic page for elevation, and it's basically a little roundup of the tools that deal with terrain heights. it's giving very "here's your squad for DEMs" energy 🌄💖

Here's the whole lineup, no gatekeeping:

• d.shade — drapes a color raster on top of a shaded relief or aspect map. it's the outfit-change of rasters fr 💅
• r.plane — makes a raster plane map for you when you hand it a dip (inclination), an aspect (azimuth), and one point. three lil ingredients, one plane, slay ✨
• r.relief — creates a shaded relief map out of an elevation map (DEM). the glow-up your DEM has been waiting for 🦋
• r.shade — drapes a color raster over a shaded relief or aspect map. yes it's the same energy as d.shade, no I'm not confused, that's literally what it says 😭

Also, see also the corresponding keyword elevation for additional references — iykyk, go peek at it if you want the full tea 👑

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k that's the whole page bestie, hope it ate 🫶 if you ever need to cite it: it's © 2003-2026 GRASS Development Team, straight out of the GRASS 8.5.0 Reference Manual, running on GRASS 8.5.0 — periodt 💖🎀