NSW Spatial Services have undertaken a program to map all of NSW using lidar (light detecting and ranging) For details, see information on their elevation program.
Elevation data can best be accessed through the Geoscience Australia ELVIS program.
It can then processed with a GIS such as QGIS to create useful topographic maps. Instructions below are specifically for use with QGIS, though the general outline may be useful for other GISs.
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There are several primary data items for topographic maps that can be generated using the DEM data from the NSW Lidar.
Once you have a depressionless DEM, the following items can be generated:
GRASS - r.geomorphon function information page. This is a different approach that could be taken for landform classification. Yet to be tested.
Training lession for QGIS 3.4 on GRASS Setup and basic use. Specific GRASS setup is required to use any GRASS functions in QGIS.
GRASS GIS example of terrain analysis using r.geomorphon
Geomorphons - a pattern recognition approach to classification and mapping of landforms paper.
Multiscale topographic position - WhiteboxTools blog post.
Multiscale topographic position image - WhiteboxTools function - user manual entry