Friday, 17 August 2018

Making elevation contours of raster smoother using QGIS


I am using QGIS 3.6.


I have raster of Europe map which I want to make a colored relief model. After duplicating the layer, used hillshade on backward layer and colored the upper layer interpolation > discrete then 65 % transparency. But the contour of color levels are not smoothed as the image shows.


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Is there any way to do that?


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Answer



In my case, I have a DEM with continue values, going from 100 to 103 meters. The spatial resolution is 0.25 x 0.25 degrees, defined in EPSG:4326. The DEM is styled with a discrete color ramp with three classes:


1




To smooth it, first I will make a raster algebra. Because I want a raster with only three values. I am using the following formula:


("testDEM@1"  <= 100) * 100 +
("testDEM@1" > 100 AND "testDEM@1" <= 101) * 101 +
("testDEM@1" > 101 AND "testDEM@1" <= 103) * 103


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Don't worry about its style, because it is an intermediate step:


3




For the smooting, I will use GRASS provider r.resamp.rst algorithm, in two steps. First, we need the slope output to use it as a smoothing raster. So run the algorithm without smooth raster. Set the spatial resolution and delete row/column overlap and spline tension values:


4


From the outputs, I have removed all of them except the slopes raster:


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Finally, run the GRASS provider r.resamp.rst algorithm again, defining the slopes output as smoothing raster:


6


We just need the Resampled output. But now, we will style it with a linear interpolation instead discrete:


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Now, you can use that raster with a 65% transparency over a hillshade:


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