USGS DEM File Reader .NET C# library

This is a .NET C# library to read USGS DEM files

Getting Started

The project is written with Microsoft Visual Studio 2017, simply download the latest source code from the master branch and build the library with the IDE.

Prerequisites

No pre-requisites other than the .NET Framework.

Installing

The project builds into a class library with example applications.

Sample Application

A sample application is included to demostrate the usage and use the DEM data to draw a color coded height map.

Basic Usage

dem = new DemDocument();
dem.read("022k13_0300_deme.dem");

Sample DEM files

To get DEM files for testing, please visit https://dds.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/DEM/250/. Please also see wikipedia entry for USGS DEM for alternative sources if the above does not work.