You are looking at exactly the same area...

             ...with your eyes you see nothing but trees...

                              ...remove the trees with the slider...

                                                ...and you suddenly see hills and creeks...

                                                               ...and even nesting mounds of scrub fowls and brush turkeys.

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The left image is an aerial photograph    --------    the right image is a LiDAR-derived Bare Earth DTM.