As you might guess from the name, MicroDEM is a program that works with digital elevation models (DEMs), plots of elevation as a function of position, the same kind of data used by 3DEM. But MicroDEM contains far more features and capabilities than 3DEM, and includes other non-DEM related features as well. I like to think of MicroDEM as a “Swiss army knife”, since it contains so many interesting and useful tools. Even if you’re not into GIS, MicroDEM is worth looking at for its terrain visualization and analysis capabilities. I could post for month or two on just MicroDEM alone, and by the time I’m done, the posts will likely add up to at least a month’s worth. But to start, I will do a number of posts over the next week or so on just a little of what MicroDEM can do. Bear with me on the first few – I have to get through some of the basics of program installation and operation before I can get to the really cool stuff.
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