Overture supports a wide variety of raster file formats that allow you to import and use terrain data for RF planning purposes.

The quickest way to load and visualize a terrain file is by using the Terrain sub-section of the Start Page. To get to this, select the Environment section:

Then select the Terrain section:

This will then display the Terrain sub page:

If pull-down selector is empty, you will need to add a new terrain provider by clicking the Add button. This displays a list of the possible terrain provider types:

Overture treats terrain as a source of distance geo-data (that is, a data set where the value at every point is a distance). If we assume that we have a raster file containing our terrain data, we would need to select the Distance from File entry to use it. You will then be shown the properties of the new provider:

Set the Filename property to the data file containing your terrain data. If the Status property is "Valid" after you have selected your file then your terrain data is ready to be used in Overture. You can now press the Back button to return to the Terrain sub-page.

Now you have loaded your terrain data, you might want to browse it using the Data Browser or you may wish to view it as a Map Layer. You can also export it to a wide variety of formats for use by other tools.

Remarks

Terrain data can be used in Overture to support a variety of RF planning tasks such as RF prediction modeling.

Overture maintains a separation between sources of geo-data (in this case the terrain data) and their visualization on the map. This allows you to add multiple map views for a single data source.