Open AccessTHE CARTOGRAPHIC CONCEPT OF THE IMAGE MAP
Author(s) -
Vít Voženílek,
L. Belka
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-b4-605-2016
Subject(s) - thematic map , symbol (formal) , projection (relational algebra) , map projection , scale (ratio) , component (thermodynamics) , image (mathematics) , terminology , cartography , computer science , topographic map (neuroanatomy) , artificial intelligence , geography , computer vision , linguistics , algorithm , psychology , philosophy , physics , posterior parietal cortex , cognitive psychology , thermodynamics , programming language
Image maps have become very popular and frequently produced cartographical outputs during recent years. However, the unambiguous terminology, definitions, content and appearance specification have not been widely researched. The paper deals with the new definition of image map, its components delineation, and basic classification. The authors understand the image map as a special map portraying geographic space in a particular cartographical projection and map scale, where its content consists of two basic components – image and symbol components. Image component is represented by remote sensing image(s), while symbol component is represented by cartographical symbols. An image map has to have three essential attributes: cartographical projection, map scale and symbol component by means of map language. The authors also present aspects of topographic and thematic image maps.