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AV-G20

Hillshade & Colour Relief

Render shaded relief and colour-by-height images from .hgt or GeoTIFF DEMs.

● Runs on your device; nothing is uploaded

How to use it

  1. Drop a .hgt, .hgt.zip or single-band GeoTIFF DEM.
  2. Pick Hillshade, Colour or Both.
  3. Set the sun azimuth, altitude and vertical exaggeration.
  4. Choose a Colour ramp and whether heights at or below 0 m show as water.
  5. Click Download PNG for a full-resolution image.

Limits

File size
150 MB
Raster cells
25 million (larger rasters are resampled)
Preview
1,024 px on the longest side
Sun azimuth
0–359°
Sun altitude
1–90°
Features
  • Horn's slope method, as used by GDAL
  • Five colour ramps: Terrain, Hypsometric tints, Viridis, Magma, Greyscale
  • Blend mode with adjustable shade strength
  • Lon/lat grids converted to metres at the centre latitude
  • Manual cell size when the file has none
  • Rendering runs in a Web Worker

For AI agents: avtools_hillshade

AV-G20 · Hillshade & Colour Relief

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