Create terrain surface from a local raster

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# Create terrain surface from a local raster

Use a terrain surface with elevation described by a raster file.

The terrain surface is what the basemap, operational layers, and graphics are draped on. 

![](CreateTerrainSurfaceFromRaster.jpg)

## How it works

1. Create a `Scene` and add it to a `SceneView`.
2. Create a `RasterElevationSource` with a list of raster file paths.
3. Add this source to the scene's base surface: `Scene.BaseSurface.ElevationSources.Add(rasterElevationSource)`.

## Additional information

Supported raster formats include:
- ASRP/USRP
- CIB1, 5, 10
- DTED0, 1, 2
- GeoTIFF
- HFA
- HRE
- IMG
- JPEG
- JPEG 2000
- NITF
- PNG
- RPF
- SRTM1, 2

The raster used in this sample is a DTED2 file.

## Relevant API

* RasterElevationSource
* Surface

## Tags

3D, Raster, Elevation, Surface

Code

C#

// Copyright 2019 Esri.
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using ArcGISRuntime.Samples.Managers;
using Esri.ArcGISRuntime.Mapping;
using Esri.ArcGISRuntime.UI.Controls;
using Foundation;
using UIKit;

namespace ArcGISRuntimeXamarin.Samples.CreateTerrainSurfaceFromRaster
{
    [Register("CreateTerrainSurfaceFromRaster")]
    [ArcGISRuntime.Samples.Shared.Attributes.Sample(
        "Create terrain surface from a local raster",
        "Map",
        "Use a terrain surface with elevation described by a local raster file.",
        "")]
    [ArcGISRuntime.Samples.Shared.Attributes.OfflineData("98092369c4ae4d549bbbd45dba993ebc")]
    public class CreateTerrainSurfaceFromRaster : UIViewController
    {
        // Hold references to UI controls.
        private SceneView _mySceneView;

        public CreateTerrainSurfaceFromRaster()
        {
            Title = "Create terrain surface from a local raster";
        }

        private void Initialize()
        {
            // Create the scene.
            _mySceneView.Scene = new Scene(Basemap.CreateImagery());

            // Get the path to the elevation raster.
            string packagePath = DataManager.GetDataFolder("98092369c4ae4d549bbbd45dba993ebc", "MontereyElevation.dt2");

            // Create the elevation source from a list of paths.
            RasterElevationSource elevationSource = new RasterElevationSource(new[] {packagePath});

            // Create a surface to display the elevation source.
            Surface elevationSurface = new Surface();

            // Add the elevation source to the surface.
            elevationSurface.ElevationSources.Add(elevationSource);

            // Add the surface to the scene.
            _mySceneView.Scene.BaseSurface = elevationSurface;

            // Set an initial camera viewpoint.
            Camera camera = new Camera(36.51, -121.80, 300.0, 0, 70.0, 0.0);
            _mySceneView.SetViewpointCamera(camera);
        }

        public override void LoadView()
        {
            // Create the views.
            View = new UIView();

            _mySceneView = new SceneView();
            _mySceneView.TranslatesAutoresizingMaskIntoConstraints = false;

            // Add the views.
            View.AddSubviews(_mySceneView);

            // Lay out the views.
            NSLayoutConstraint.ActivateConstraints(new[]
            {
                _mySceneView.TopAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(View.SafeAreaLayoutGuide.TopAnchor),
                _mySceneView.BottomAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(View.BottomAnchor),
                _mySceneView.LeadingAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(View.LeadingAnchor),
                _mySceneView.TrailingAnchor.ConstraintEqualTo(View.TrailingAnchor)
            });
        }

        public override void ViewDidLoad()
        {
            base.ViewDidLoad();
            Initialize();
        }
    }
}