Abstract
Abstract. 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.
Highlights
Fancy in English means elaborate in structure or decoration, luxurious, sophisticated or extravagant
Channels 2, 3, 4, ground resolution 30 m, panchromatic image, ground resolution 15 m; color composite in natural colors made by NASA, ground resolution 30 m
After mosaicing each of 2, 3, 4 channels we made a composite image in true colors named COMPO and we compared it with mosaiced color composite of NASA
Summary
Fancy in English means elaborate in structure or decoration, luxurious, sophisticated or extravagant. Using the name fancy map the authors wanted to stress that this map was made for pleasure, without an order to do it, just as a gift on the occasion of the trip of fellow Professor to Cyprus. In order not to prolong the mystery, the article is about the execution of image maps from the source materials available in the internet, which is illustrated by the example of a map of Cyprus. The area of the island was covered with three TM scenes that required mosaicing, and each was recorded with 16 bits per channel. The other two kinds of data, i.e. hillshading images and vector data had the georeference and could be placed to ArcMap to construct the database for Cyprus
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