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Re: Doese ImageJ contains Hill Shade ?

Posted by Michael Schmid on Oct 10, 2014; 5:26pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Doese-ImageJ-contains-Hill-Shade-tp5009995p5009997.html

Hi Feras,

there is no hillshade plugin that I am aware of.

It would be simple to implement a very basic one; see e.g.
http://edndoc.esri.com/arcobjects/9.2/net/shared/geoprocessing/spatial_analyst_tools/how_hillshade_works.htm

A rough approximation is the gradient. This can be calculated by convolution with a simple 3x3 matrix: You have to convert the image to float first (Image>Type>32 bit). E.g. convolving (Image>Process>Filters>Convolve) with something like the following looks like illumination from the left:

-0.25 0 0.25
-0.5  0 0.5
-0.25 0 0.25

Process>Shadows calculates the sum of the image and the gradient.

Michael
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On Oct 10, 2014, at 18:41, Feras wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I just wonder if imageJ contains Hillshade functionality ? If so how can I find it?
>
> Thanks,
> Feras

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