Topographic Cartography Course
This course equips you with skills in topographic cartography for trail and shelter planning. You will source and prepare DEMs, perform terrain analysis, produce contours and hillshades, and create accurate maps suited for geography and geology experts, ensuring professional standards throughout.

flexible workload from 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
Gain expertise in sourcing and evaluating DEMs and basemaps, preparing layers, cleaning elevation data, generating contours, hillshades, and terrain visuals, designing user-friendly maps for hikers and technicians, planning trails and shelters, and maintaining a documented workflow with quality control for reliable outputs.
Elevify advantages
Develop skills
- Find, clean, and mosaic DEMs for mapping projects.
- Analyse terrain to identify slopes, aspects, hazards, and shelter sites.
- Create contours and hillshades using GIS software.
- Design clear, print-ready topographic maps for field users.
- Document workflows with quality checks and data citations.
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