Description

Returns the hypothetical illumination of an elevation raster band using the azimuth, altitude, brightness, and scale inputs. Utilizes map algebra and applies the hill shade equation to neighboring pixels. Return pixel values are between 0 and 255.

azimuth is a value between 0 and 360 degrees measured clockwise from North.

altitude is a value between 0 and 90 degrees where 0 degrees is at the horizon and 90 degrees is directly overhead.

max_bright is a value between 0 and 255 with 0 as no brightness and 255 as max brightness.

scale is the ratio of vertical units to horizontal. For Feet:LatLon use scale=370400, for Meters:LatLon use scale=111120.

If interpolate_nodata is TRUE, values for NODATA pixels from the input raster will be interpolated using ST_InvDistWeight4ma before computing the hillshade illumination.

	For more information about Hillshade, please refer to How hillshade works.

Availability: 2.0.0

Enhanced: 2.1.0 Uses ST_MapAlgebra() and added optional interpolate_nodata function parameter

Changed: 2.1.0 In prior versions, azimuth and altitude were expressed in radians. Now, azimuth and altitude are expressed in degrees

Examples: Variant 1

WITH foo AS (
	SELECT ST_SetValues(
		ST_AddBand(ST_MakeEmptyRaster(5, 5, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 0), 1, '32BF', 0, -9999),
		1, 1, 1, ARRAY[
			[1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
			[1, 2, 2, 2, 1],
			[1, 2, 3, 2, 1],
			[1, 2, 2, 2, 1],
			[1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
		]::double precision[][]
	) AS rast
)
SELECT
	ST_DumpValues(ST_Hillshade(rast, 1, '32BF'))
FROM foo

                                                                                                                       st_dumpvalues                                                
                                                                       
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
 (1,"{{NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL},{NULL,251.32763671875,220.749786376953,147.224319458008,NULL},{NULL,220.749786376953,180.312225341797,67.7497863769531,NULL},{NULL,147.224319458008
,67.7497863769531,43.1210060119629,NULL},{NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL}}")
(1 row)
					

Examples: Variant 2

Complete example of tiles of a coverage. This query only works with PostgreSQL 9.1 or higher.

WITH foo AS (
	SELECT ST_Tile(
		ST_SetValues(
			ST_AddBand(
				ST_MakeEmptyRaster(6, 6, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, 0),
				1, '32BF', 0, -9999
			),
			1, 1, 1, ARRAY[
				[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1],
				[1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1],
				[1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1],
				[1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1],
				[1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1],
				[1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1]
			]::double precision[]
		),
		2, 2
	) AS rast
)
SELECT
	t1.rast,
	ST_Hillshade(ST_Union(t2.rast), 1, t1.rast)
FROM foo t1
CROSS JOIN foo t2
WHERE ST_Intersects(t1.rast, t2.rast)
GROUP BY t1.rast;
					

See Also

ST_MapAlgebra, ST_TRI, ST_TPI, ST_Roughness, ST_Aspect, ST_Slope