Week 7: Digital Elevation Models

The area that I selected is in the Los Angeles region. The extent of the area, in decimal degrees is 119.409 W to 118.824 W, and 34.438 N to 34.827 N. The geographic coordinate system is North American Datum 1983 (UTM Zone 11). The region I chose is hilly in its topography, as easily seen by the 3-D models below. By looking at the aspect map, it can be seen that a lot of the land faces north/south rather than east/west. The slope of the hills is relatively gentle, except at the peaks (shown by red areas on the slope map). The hillshade map gives a good picture of the general terrain. I included the 3-D images from two different angles to give a greater picture about what the region generally looks like.