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Digital Terrain Models (DTM)

1. Description

Similar to a Digital Surface Model (DSM), a Digital Terrain Model (DTM) is a topographic model of the bare Earth. A DTM excludes objects above ground level such as buildings, structures, cars, and trees. Simply highlight elevated objects that you wish to remove from the DSM, and the DTM analytic will automatically remove the associated elevation for these objects. A DTM can be used for a quarry or a mine site to remove unwanted ground objects from an area.

The inputs required are a Digital Surface Model (DSM), along with the interpolated area boundaries for the objects above ground (trees, vehicles, or water bodies) that will be removed to generate the DTM.

Example of a DTM (Output file) on a small area:

2. Inputs

Here are the mandatory inputs for this analytics:

  • DSM: Available after photogrammetry processing.
  • Interpolation Areas: vector file (DXF, KML, GEOJSON) that delimits the area to be removed.

The Interpolation Areas can be drawn on Alteia with the polygon annotation tool or uploaded as a vector GEOJSON file.
If you choose to draw polygon annotation on Alteia, that annotation must be converted to a "Field Boundary" ‍before being used in the DTM generation.

3. Workflow

3.1 DTM Generation

Step 1 - Open a Site in Alteia, then select the appropriate Survey. The survey must contain a preliminary DSM (generated from the photogrammetry process in Alteia, or imported from a third-party software) and one or multiple interpolation areas.

Step 2 - Go to the analytic catalog from the analytics button on the left menu, select "DTM" under FREE ANALYTICS and click on "LAUNCH".

Step 3 - Select the DSM as a base layer and one or multiple Interpolation Areas, created previously as annotated polygons and converted to field boundaries.

Step 4 - Press the "NEXT STEP" button.


Step 5 - Now select the interpolation method and click on "LAUNCH DTM":

  • Triangulated surface (Default): Replace the areas marked out by the input contour with meshed surfaces. Each surface is computed by running a Delaunay triangulation of the input's contour points.
  • Best fit plane: Replace the areas marked out by the input contour with the best-fit plane.
  • Lowest point: Replace the areas marked out by the input contour with a plane fitted over the input contour points.
  • Curve Saver: Replace the areas marked out by the input contour with surfaces that preserve the surrounding curvature.
    Note: It is useful to remove conveyors over stockpiles without distorting the shape of the stockpile.

Step 6 - Click on "FINISH".

3.2 Progress & Completion Status

Check the status anytime from the analytic LAUNCHED tab.
 

A notification is sent to inform of the end of the treatment, see Notification Center‍.

4. Results

Exit the Analytic section and follow the steps below to view the generated DTM.  

Step 1 - Go back to the Layers section and open the "BASE LAYERS" section and select the DTM.

Step 2 - Clicking on the DTM will open the information panel, where you can view the DTM properties. Measure the elevation at any point of the map using the Value at point tool‍.

5. Deliverable

After generating the DTM, you can export the model for external use.

Go to the Downloads section and select the DTM file or use the "Search" function to download.


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