Natural Earth global shaded relief (hillshade)#

hillshade · theme terrain · live

Global 8-bit grayscale shaded relief from Natural Earth at 1 or 2 arcmin, from a plain hillshade to Gray Earth with hypsography, ocean bottom, and drainages; a basemap layer for maps, not an analysis input.

import easysnowdata as esd

aoi = (-121.94, 46.72, -121.54, 46.99)   # Mount Rainier
hillshade_da = esd.terrain.hillshade.load(aoi)

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Sources#

source

provider

credentials

resolution

extent

temporal

latency

notes

natural-earth (default)

raster_http

none

1850 m

global

static

—

one zipped GeoTIFF per style and scale (18-92 MB), cached on first use and read in place; EPSG:4326, no nodata

Where each route points#

natural-earth — Natural Earth S3 bucket live

https://naturalearth.s3.amazonaws.com/<scale>_raster/<style>.zip

Variables#

variable

units

dtype

nodata

categorical

hillshade

1

uint8

—

no

Provenance#

Licence · Public domain

Cite the data as

Patterson, T., & Kelso, N. V. Natural Earth raster data: Gray Earth with shaded relief, hypsography, ocean bottom, and drainages. https://www.naturalearthdata.com/

Documentation

Loader · easysnowdata.terrain.hillshade.load