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Aerial Mapping – A Bird’s Eye View

February 6th, 2010 Hank Moodie No comments

Aerial Mapping is a slamming breakthrough with the advancement of satellite technology. It is a constant monitoring, image capturing, analysing and documenting of satellite images which are georeferenced into maps. This pioneering technology puts the entire map of the world with its limitless details in the user’s lap.

Aerial Mapping is graphed by the satellite imaging of aerial photography. It captures images from the satellite giving the pictures from a bird’s eye view. It does not show the elevation of land or other features, unlike topographical maps. Constant transmitting of signals is exchanged from the satellite to produce live images of the particular location.

With aerial mapping, one can gain knowledge of actual directions from place to place and also gauging the best route which would take you there. It gives you information and the locations of various sightseeing attractions, government areas, and even property and real estate information. With the help of the Global positioning system one is able to obtain precise and updated information.

Orthophotomaps are maps formed by combining the aerial map images to form an entire map. This enables the user to use the internet to brows places, panning and viewing a particular area and make the best use of aerial mapping. This helps to find out information about a particular city or areas surrounding it without even having to visit it.

Some areas which are restricted to privacy such as government operations and secret military operations are blurred from the digital aerial maps. This maintained a certain level of privacy in the restricted areas.

Java enabled devices can access aerial maps easily by anyone who needs it. Even hand-held devices such as java enabled mobile phones are used to access these live maps in whichever location you are with the help of satellite aerial mapping programs.

Aerial Mapping can be used to track events and also places of natural disasters to gain updated information about the danger zones. With the advancement of this technology, man is unable to imagine how life was before this innovation. Aerial mapping provided a key to the wonders of exploring the earth and space that one is even able to view infrared images of Planet Mars. It is an established fact that with aerial mapping and live information captured millions of miles away from the earth, man has been able to get a grip on the vast area of this world after all.

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Digital Terrain Mapping (DTM) in California

October 11th, 2009 Bill DeSmit No comments

The word DTM stands for Digital terrain mapping. Digital terrain mapping is simply nothing but the 3d view of the ground terrain landscape. This is used particularly for creating map such as relief map, climatic changes, aerial photograph etc. There are various applications of digital terrain mapping (DTM).

The main objective for the discovery of this technology is for the purpose of creating map so that this will enable the researchers and other people to have a deep insight about areas that is under study for them.

The researchers can analyze the areas that they want to know in a deeper sense when they study about a particular place or area to know about the resources present in the area. When you look at the map which is developed by the digitals terrain mapping technology you can able to observe that it comprises of many irregular shaped triangles or successive squares and this determines the eminence of the map which you make by using the digitals terrain mapping technology.

The map that is created by Digital terrain mapping will not show the forest and the other cities are eliminated from it by using some software or by editing manually. Topographical map are generally created by using this method. From the topographical map one can able to gather a lot of the information about a particular zone or the area.

If they are able to turn their cons into pros it will facilitate them to gain more profit. This technology is considered as an asset for the civil group of the people as with this they can find all the information which they need about the areas and also about the elevations of the areas in which they plan to erect the building.

Elevation shape is generally developed only by this method which will help people to get a better insight. This 3d model which they are making will make their planning very easier. Insurance companies now days are using this method in order to estimate the level of the risk that is associated with the area regarding the flood which plays a crucial role as this in turn will help them to calculate the premium level of the customers.

This is one of the valuable tools that the researchers use when they are planning to make a study of the resources that are hidden underground. This is a great asset for the civil engineers to build a construction.

One can state numerous applications for digital terrains mapping method. This is really one of the wonderful discoveries made by the human beings to know more about the mother earth

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Digital Orthophotography: What is it and What is it Used For?

September 29th, 2009 Jayson Ripley No comments

In order to understand how digital orthophotography can be useful you will first need to know about it and of course what it entails. By the time you have finished reading this article this is the information that you will have. Basically it is the technology of old used alongside new technology in order to create something that has many different uses.

Orthophotography is a picture that has been taken from up high, in the best possible weather conditions to give you a view of the ground below with distortion removed with digital technology, this kind of serial photograph can give a picture of what the ground below looks like without having to use representation.

The actual height from which an orthophotographic picture is taken from is 5′000 feet so as you can imagine it can cover a good area size, this will allow you to cover and look at a large area without having obstacles such as hills and tall buildings blocking your view.

It is also used for measurement purposes, and the best way that I can describe it is to compare it to fitting a carpet. If you wanted to fit a carpet into your house before you could purchase it you would need to know the exact size, this is something that you cannot do with guesswork otherwise you could end up with not enough or too much material, this is the same when you think of building structure. If you were to measure the room for the carpet you would not be dragging the tape measure over the furniture in the room, you would do so from the walls as you would be sure they are the clearest space, and if not you would move the obstacle in the way, of course a building would not be as easy to move as your television, neither would a hill or mountain which is why taking a clear photograph from up above is an easier way to do it.

Many organizations as well as businesses can make great use of orthophotography as well as saving money and time in the process. One such organization that uses it is the environmental heritage service which is located in Northern Ireland. What they do is conserve nature and they will be able to tell from a series of photographs taken how much certain things have changed and of course, whether this is an improvement or not so that they can make the necessary changes.

You can not always tell a change such as this one if you were to take photographs from the ground, plus it would take a lot more photographs to cover the area than one taken from up high.

You will find that the pictures are highly detailed which means that they are also able to scope out things such as an illegal dumping site, this kind of activity could go undiscovered of not for orthophotography and people who are ruining our environment would go unpunished.

As you can see there are many uses to orthophotography and it will continue to have its uses for many years to come.

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