I am trying to extract an elevation profile across a large dataset. I am
working with a 1km DEM of the entire US. The profile crosses the entire
country from Washington, DC, over the Appalachians to Pittsburgh, then down
the Ohio River to the Mississippi, then up the Mississippi to the Missouri.
It then goes up the Missouri River to it's source, over the Rocky Mountains,
and eventually down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean. Sound familiar?
It should - it is the path of the Corps of Discovery, lead by Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark to explore an all water route to the Pacific Ocean,
while exploring the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.

The reason I explained all that is, since the route is not one or two line
segments, but a rather detailed path with LOTS - and I mean 1000s -  of
vertices.

I obviously can't use ER Mapper's "transect" tool. Does anyone have any
strategies they have used or can suggest that would allow me to construct an
elevation profile of this path? I tried converting my vector layer (of the
path) to raster, but then I don't know how to arrange the cells to construct
the profile.

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Christopher Ferro
GIS/Remote Sensing Specialist
Center for Educational Technologies
Wheeling Jesuit University
Wheeling, WV 26003
Phone: 304-243-4326
Fax: 304-243-2497
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Ezekiel 18:20

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