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removeCustomTerrain

Remove custom terrain data

Description

removeCustomTerrain(terrainName) removes the custom terrain data specified by the user-defined terrainName. You can use this function to remove terrain data that is no longer needed. The terrain data to be removed must have been previously added using addCustomTerrain.

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Examples

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Add terrain for a region around Boulder, CO. The DTED file was downloaded from the "SRTM Void Filled" data set available from the U.S. Geological Survey.

dtedfile = "n39_w106_3arc_v2.dt1";
attribution = "SRTM 3 arc-second resolution. Data available from the U.S. Geological Survey.";
addCustomTerrain("southboulder",dtedfile,Attribution=attribution)

Use the custom terrain name in Site Viewer.

viewer = siteviewer(Terrain="southboulder");

Create a site within the terrain region.

mtzion = txsite(Name="Mount Zion",Latitude=39.74356,Longitude=-105.24193, ...
   AntennaHeight=30);
show(mtzion)

Transmitter site displayed over satellite imagery

Create a coverage map of the area within 20 km of the transmitter site.

coverage(mtzion,MaxRange=20000,SignalStrengths=-100:-5)

Transmitter site and coverage map displayed over satellite imagery

Remove the custom terrain.

close(viewer)
removeCustomTerrain("southboulder")

Input Arguments

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User-defined identifier for terrain data previously added using addCustomTerrain, specified as a string scalar or a character vector.

Data Types: char | string

Version History

Introduced in R2019a