How to edit/smoothen the contour lines resulted from DEM

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01-21-2022 08:41 PM
shadi7577
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I have been using ArcMap to construct a contour map using an ALOS PALSAR high resolution terrain corrected digital elevation model. The resulting contours initially look like this 

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I knew that there's a method to smoothen  out the rugged/intersecting/un-interpretable contour lines which is applying Focal Statistics to the DEM. I was wondering which neighborhood method that is suitable to prepare the DEM for contouring

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Sean_Wray
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I found this tread that seems like it has an answer.

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-pro-questions/how-to-smooth-contour-lines-and-remove-small-quot...

Here is another short video with a very simple way to do it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AG--rdypj74

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