Open AccessDETERMINING THE SUITABILITY OF DIFFERENT DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS AND SATELLITE IMAGES FOR FANCY MAPS. AN EXAMPLE OF CYPRUS
Author(s) -
J. Drachal,
A. K. Kawel
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences/international archives of the photogrammetry, remote sensing and spatial information sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.264
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1682-1777
pISSN - 1682-1750
DOI - 10.5194/isprsarchives-xli-b4-591-2016
Subject(s) - shuttle radar topography mission , digital elevation model , terrain , remote sensing , satellite , advanced spaceborne thermal emission and reflection radiometer , elevation (ballistics) , raised relief map , boundary (topology) , satellite imagery , geology , geography , computer science , cartography , mathematics , mathematical analysis , geometry , aerospace engineering , engineering
The article describes the possibility of developing an overall map of the selected area on the basis of publicly available data. Such a map would take the form designed by the author with the colors that meets his expectations and a content, which he considers to be appropriate. Among the data available it was considered the use of satellite images of the terrain in real colors and, in the form of shaded relief, digital terrain models with different resolutions of the terrain mesh. Specifically the considered data were: MODIS, Landsat 8, GTOPO-30, SRTM-30, SRTM-1, SRTM-3, ASTER. For the test area the island of Cyprus was chosen because of the importance in tourism, a relatively small area and a clearly defined boundary. In the paper there are shown and discussed various options of the Cyprus terrain image obtained synthetically from variants of Modis, Landsat and digital elevation models of different resolutions.