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For questions about Digital Elevation Models (DEM), Digital Terrain Models (DTM) and Digital Surface Models (DSM)

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Surface distance on DEM between two coordinates

If the DEM has a coarser resolution your overland distance will always be a bit lower (unless you have strange border conditions), but in reality this difference is most likely not important. …
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Loading .hgt file in SAGA GIS

In fact you can open directly in SAGA using gdal. Use modules/file/gdal or just drag and drop the file on saga.
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Generating random but believable digital elevation model?

You could also consider having a script that takes random part of an existing real DEM. …
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Converting DEM into areas of "flatness", with arbitrary fill/cut to area ratio?

As far as I understand your question, you might be very interested in the techniques mentioned in this paper: Gallant, J.C., Dowling, T.I. (2003): 'A multiresolution index of valley bottom flatness fo …
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River drainage basin boundary

If you don't find a map, SAGA GIS has a module called watershed basins that uses a dem and the channel network (your rivers). … If you use a coarse dem this goes fast. http://www.saga-gis.org/saga_modules_doc/ta_channels/index.html …
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Integrating DEM within kriging and other interpolation methods?

Search for regression kriging or kriging with external drift. But on topic: How many datapoints do you have? What exactly do you want to predict at which scale? Kriging and especially regression kri …
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shadow simulation from buildings

Not in Arcgis, but the free SAGA GIS can calculate the shade of objects in a digital surface model: http://www.saga-gis.org/saga_modules_doc/ta_lighting/ta_lighting_00.html Use the analytical hillshad …
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