Friday, October 17, 2008

Remote Sensing Assignment


Dry Tortugas National Park--DEM information regarding acquired lidar topographic information; color coded elevation images. http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/remote-sensing/advancedmethods/googleearth.html
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/remote-sensing/advancedmethods/DRTO/drto_bathy_index.kmz

An Image of Panama City, Florida. Image includes roadways, weather advisories, and terrain mappers.

A view of the Earth with weather radar, a show of the clouds, and national borders highlighted.

Cadastral Map


Cadastral map sheets of the cadastral survey under Emperor Franz I, 1817-1861


http://www.fig.net/hsm/news/franz/1829wien_600.jpg

Thematic Map

This is a thematic map of the continents (excluding Antarctica) concerning the methane emissions yielded from growing rice. Notice how Brazil, India, and China are among the highest emitters of methane due to rice.

http://www.epa.gov/appcdwww/apb/gloed/images/rice.gif

Topographic map


This is a topographic map of a raised land mass--probably a mountain near a desert or less-precipitous region. The contour map below uses a 1:4,800 scale. Notice the shaded relief to improve the map.

http://www.compassdude.com/i/topographic-map.jpg

Planimetric Map


This is a planimetric map of Lake George, NY. Included are different shading areas signifying either differences in population density, land forms, or just to include a differentiation of individual areas.

http://www.nysgis.state.ny.us/mapssales/gifs/lakegeo.jpg