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Apply a hillshade renderer to a raster.

Image of hillshade renderer

Use case

An environmental agency may track coastal erosion by comparing images of an area taken over a longer period of time with hillshade renderers applied.

How to use the sample

Choose and adjust the settings to update the hillshade renderer on the raster layer. The sample allows you to change the Altitude, Azimuth, and Slope Type.

How it works

  1. Create a Raster from a grayscale raster file.
  2. Create a RasterLayer from the raster.
  3. Create a Basemap from the raster layer and set it to the map.
  4. Create a HillshadeRenderer, specifying the slope type and other properties.
  5. Set the hillshade renderer to be used on the raster layer with rasterLayer.setRenderer(renderer).

Relevant API

  • Basemap
  • HillshadeRenderer
  • Raster
  • RasterLayer

Tags

altitude, angle, azimuth, raster, slope, visualization

Sample Code

module-info.java module-info.java HillshadeRendererController.java HillshadeRendererSample.java
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module com.esri.samples.hillshade_renderer {
// require ArcGIS Maps SDK for Java module
requires com.esri.arcgisruntime;
// handle SLF4J http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder
requires org.slf4j.nop;
// require JavaFX modules that the application uses
requires javafx.graphics;
requires javafx.controls;
requires javafx.fxml;
// make all @FXML annotated objects reflectively accessible to the javafx.fxml module
opens com.esri.samples.hillshade_renderer to javafx.fxml;
exports com.esri.samples.hillshade_renderer;
}