# How do I display geoTiff image correctly and display elevation

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 22, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014 "2025-01-22T00:52:38Z")
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### Author: ![ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/anon1/32/3919_2.png) [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 12:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014/1 "2025-01-22T00:52:38Z")

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Hello,

I have this geoTIFF [image](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/18498071/output_hh.zip): which can be opened in Windows using the default image viewer without any issues.

I tried to open it in ParaView 5.13.2 with both GDAL Raster reader and TIFF series Reader but it does not look like the original image.

![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8f71feb765cced5025f46c18823bd38ac8e90997.png)

My goal is to open this image in ParaView and warp it elevation (using **Warp by Scalar** filter).

Any help is appreciated.

Thank you

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 8:23am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014/2 "2025-01-22T08:23:58Z")

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Hi,

I was able to open it with the GDAL raster Reader (PV 5.13.2):

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/4/49a5469b3a4c51e31138fe6e4627ce595b9a912c.jpeg)

Note that you may need to rotate the camera to front the data instead of having just an (quite invisible) side.

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### Author: ![ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/anon1/32/3919_2.png) [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014/3 "2025-01-22T09:36:57Z")

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Hi @nicolas.vuaille,

Thank you for your reply. I tried to rotate the view using the mouse (in both 2D and 3D modes), used the views from the toolbar as well:  
 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/0ea355f382c0dbf151c2374660dea0e5e9b34dff.png)

But the navigation is really weird. It seems that the image is appearing/disappearing continuously (I’ve never seen this before in ParaView).

How can I get the image to show up in the correct expected view?

Attached is a recording of the issue I’m encountering:

[Recording of ParaView](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/76cb6c43-65ce-4c64-a9e1-edf922f8282c)

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### Author: ![nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/nicolas.vuaille/32/5873_2.png) [@nicolas.vuaille](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/nicolas.vuaille)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 9:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014/4 "2025-01-22T09:40:17Z")

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For this kind of issue, `Reset` the camera is often a good solution.

![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/0/093f094af6a7200139aac2fac38b50aa8042773f.png)

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### Author: ![ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/anon1/32/3919_2.png) [@ANON1](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ANON1)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2025, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-do-i-display-geotiff-image-correctly-and-display-elevation/16014/5 "2025-01-22T09:46:03Z")

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Using “Reset Camera” button didn’t help.  
I think the issue with the view is caused by the default “Slice” representation:

![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/2/234f06227af633e1fdbd547efb5b69305f1fd83b.png)

When I change the representation to “Surface” it works as expected!

 ![image](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/default/original/2X/9/9f2ffe1fbf8694cee2c1ee2491eabcf9005ea632.jpeg)

To get the **Warp by Scalar** filter to work, I had to apply the “Cell Data to Point Data” filter first.