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TIN (Triangulated Irregular Network)

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A technique for representing topography in a GIS. The land surface is represented with a series of contiguous, non-overlapping triangles. The vertices of each triangle are data points with x, y, and z values; elevation values at these points are interpolated to create a continuous surface.