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Grey-scale laser altimeter DEM of the Burdekin Delta with log stretch.
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... from the Burdekin River, its major distributaries and some abandoned channels, only a few bedrock hills disrupt the flatness of the landscape away from the beach ridges and tidal channels of the coastal zone. The recent acquisition of laser altimeter data has resulted in a new, high resolution Digital Elevation Model (DEM, Figure 1) over the Burdekin Delta that reveals many subtleties in the landscape that were not available to earlier researchers. The DEM has a 10 metre lateral resolution and submetre vertical resolution. ...
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