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QGIS Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   QGIS Quick Start Guide A beginner's guide to getting started with QGIS 3.4

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789341157
Length 164 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Styling raster data

Turn off all the vector layers. In this section, we are going to focus on rendering raster data. Load into the map the SR_50M_alaska_nad and landcover layers. We will style these layers. The options for styling raster data include the following:

  • Multiband color: When you have three or more raster bands (for example, a satellite image), this option allows you to choose which bands are for the red, green, and blue channels
  • Paletted/Unique values: Colors discrete raster data (landcover classification, for example)
  • Singleband gray: Applies a black to white or white to black color ramp for continuous raster data (elevation data, for example)
  • Singleband pseudcolor: Will apply a color ramp to continuous raster data (elevation data, for example)
  • Hillshade: Will style a DEM as a hillshade raster on the fly

The SR_50M_alaska_nad image will, by default, load as Singleband...

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