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PRODUCTS
OF
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Year: 2002
Contour Interval: 20 m
Place: Rotkreuz
– The basic coverage (a country’s largest map series) is based on measurements made in the field
or from aerial photographs.
– All components of a topographic map at a specified scale are of equal importance: water, terrain,
communication, built-up areas, vegetation, etc., as well as the lettering of place-names and
geographical and cultural features.
– To simplify matters, we can say that a topographic map is a graphic representation of the three
dimensional configuration of the earth’s surface. It shows size, shape and distribution of landscape
features, and presents the horizontal and vertical positions of those represented features
Water
Relief features
number of ways, but they Note that contour line data or any other
sampled elevation datasets (by GPS or
frequently use remote
ground survey) are not DEMs, but may be
sensing rather than direct
considered digital terrain models. A DEM
survey data. implies that elevation is available
continuously at each location in the study
Production of DEM
Satellite Mapping
One powerful technique for generating Planetary Mapping
digital elevation models is interferometric A tool of increasing value in planetary science has
synthetic aperture radar where two passes been use of orbital altimetry used to make digital
of a radar satellite or a single pass if the elevation map of planets. A primary tool for this is
satellite is equipped with two antennas Laser altimetry. Planetary digital elevation maps
collect sufficient data to generate a digital made using laser altimetry include the Mars Orbiter
elevation map tens of kilometers on a side Laser Altimeter (MOLA) mapping of Mars, the Lunar
with a resolution of around ten meters. Orbital Laser Altimeter (LOLA) and Lunar Altimeter
(LALT) mapping of the Moon, and the Mercury Laser
Altimeter (MLA) mapping of Mercury.
Relief map of the
Sierra Nevada, MOLA digital elevation
showing use of both model showing the two
shading and false hemispheres of Mars.
color as visualization This image appeared on
tools to indicate the cover of Science
elevation
magazine in May 1999.
HOW TO GET ORTHOPHOTO ???
An image that is free of A kind of scaled
distortion (it has been photographic map, on
ortho-rectified) and which it is perfectly
which is characterized possible to perform
by a uniform scale over measurements as if it
its entire surface. were a standard map.
ORTHOPHOTO
METHODS
GROUND
CONTROL POINTS
(GCP)
Ground Control Points (GCP) are determined
either conventional ground surveys, from published
maps, by Global Positioning System (GPS) surveys.
These points are taken at visible physical features
on the landscape. On the corresponding image, the
x, y photo coordinates are then determined for each
corresponding GCP. Depending on the type of
algorithmic correction to be used, a minimum of 3 to
5 GCP must be established. The relationship of the
x, y photo coordinates to the real world GCP is then
used to determine the algorithm for resampling the
image.
EXAMPLE : ORTHORECTIFICATION USING DSM
Interpolate
Define pixel Interpolate Project 3D intensitynvalue for the
positions in surface height at surface points to orthophoto from the
orthophoto plane those positions image points neighbourhood in the
original image
DSM INTERPOLATION
Interpolation predicts values for cells in a
raster from a limited number of sample data
points. It can be used to predict unknown
values for any geographic point data.
Interpolation of surface
heights at every pixel of
orthophoto, determine the
height via interpolation
RESAMPLING