The Cross Section tool identifies and analyzes spatial relationships between rasters.
The Cross Section tool allows you to extract the cell values of a raster image along a line or polyline. Using the values, you can then plot a graph showing the cell values on the Y-axis against the distance covered by the line or polyline on the X-axis.
You can draw or choose a MapInfo line/polyline object from a map layer that overlies one or more raster layers and then by using the Cross Section functionality you can extract the raster values along the line and construct a vertical profile.
When you open Cross Section operation from the RASTER ribbon menu, it opens profile graph
window. Click 
on the upper-right corner of the dialog to access the Cross
Section options to change the various options and then see the result on the profile
window.
For example, you can use this tool to:
- Extract a profile of elevation data along a bike path to analyze how steep the gradient of the hills are along the path.
- Extract a profile of elevation data along a proposed route to evaluate the feasibility of placing a new rail line along a given path.
- Extract profiles from multiple rasters and graph them together to show, for example, topographic relief together with ground magnetic and soil geochemistry, allowing relationships between the various raster surfaces to be examined.
- Extract a profile between two cell phone towers to determine whether there are any significant hills or valleys between them which would limit the signal from reaching all areas.
Interactive Cross Section - You can also use the interactive Cross Section to draw a cross section profile instantly.