Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
FSDEM 1.1

File Description:
FSDEM is a graphical tool designed to help on the editing and correction of NASA SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) terrain elevation meshes, and to create terrain mesh scenery to be used in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002/2004.

Program main features:

• Can read SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 HGT file types.
• Automatic reading of HGT files from ZIP files (as distributed by USGS), saving disk space. No need for external decompressors.
• Can read binary raster files. Useful to import DEM data from 3rd party GIS applications.
• Easy-to-build mosaic: just select the HGT source folder and the coordinates of the bounding rectangle, and the program will join the appropriate HGT files into a single working mesh, fully editable, on-screen.
• Ability to load adjoining tiles for better interpolation results.
• Graphical editing of elevation data: selective area filling, offseting, clipping, etc.
• Interpolation capability for missing data (voids) - parametric Inverse Distance Weighted Average Interpolation.
• Edit-enabled zoom modes.
• Multi-level "undo" capability.
• Ability to append overlapping bands to the output BGL (useful to avoid visual glitches caused by adjoining BGL areas).
• Creates BGL files with a single click. No need to manually create an INF file. No need to use Microsoft Resample directly.
• Support for user-supplied additional INF files.
• Ability to export the terrain mesh to a binary raster file for further editing in 3rd party GIS tools.
• Can save the terrain mesh to a BMP picture for reference.