FE Civil Engineering Exam Prep

Answer: B - Of the answers listed, Digital Terrain Modeling is most useful for generating high quality cartographic contours. DTMs are digital representations of a portion of the Earth’s surface. The input data, data models, and algorithms required to generate a digital model of a terrain’s surface are significantly different from those needed to represent planimetric data. For example, most DTM data is derived from a combination of ground surveys, photogrammetric resources, digitized cartographic data, and altimetry data.