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Geography 12: Maps and MappingLecture 17:

New methods and Issues for Heights on Maps

Base line

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Triangulation and Plane Table

US Coast and Geodetic Survey: 1937 national coverage

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Triangulations: WGS70

Post WWII Air photographs

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Principal Point

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Radial displacement around nadir

Relief Displacement

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Height from displacement

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Reference axes

Orthorectification

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Orthorectified

Buildings easy, terrain hard!

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Unless, there are two images

Stereo geometry (Conjugate PP)

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Flight line geometry/overlap

Height from parallax

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Flight planning map

Analog photogrammetry

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Softcopy photogrammetry

Wild Heerbrug BC2Analytical Stereoplotter

Intergraph Workstations

How SAR works

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Terrain Model from IFSAR (Hailey, ID)

IFSAR DEM

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SAR from Space

SRTM: Global topo map

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NOAA Southern Cal. IFSAR viewer

IFSAR: Thousand Oaks, CA

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How Lidar works

LIDAR first and last pulse

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LIDAR terrain detail

Critical height issue: Sea Level

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Summary

• First generation topographic mapping used triangulation and plane table

• Second generation used stereo photogrammetry

• New generation uses IFSAR and LIDAR• Unprecedented accuracy• What surface to map?