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A hillshade is a grayscale 3D model of the surface, with the sun's relative position taken into account for shading the image.

A hillshade is a grayscale 3D model of the surface, with the sun's relative position taken into account for shading the image. This function uses the latitude and azimuth properties to specify the sun's position.

Source: ArcGIS Help on Hillshade Function.

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High Mountain hillshade is not "natural"

after generalizing my DHM and extraction of different color-hillshades, I got something like this: Its not very good, but I used the idea of Imhof generalizing and coloring the hillshade (multishade). Its "digital-round-smooth" like "organic" and…
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Correcting pixelated hillshade using QGIS

I'm running QGIS 3.20.2. I created a hillshade from lidar data for a property I live on, but the hillshade is quite pixelated. Is there a way to unpixelate it, so it looks smooth and clear? See attached pic for what it looks like now.
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How to add hillshades to a raster map?

I have a raster map without hillshades and want to add Hillshades derived from the SRTM90 dataset. I am looking for a tool, that can handle that as automatic as possible? I don't want to bother with too much with Data-Download, -Conversion and…
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