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Topographic Surveys
Topographic Surveys
Surveys
Required:
Topographic Maps
Large areas:
-photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, automatic. With
ground survey for control, GPS?
Overlapped images from a plane, geometry is solved,
images are oriented , and finally 3D models are produced
and digitized to produce maps.
Large areas:LIDAR
Terrain mapping using scanning airborne laser radar
(LIDAR): the aircraft is simply transformed into the
equivalent of an airborne total station by combining laser
range-finder technology with GPS and inertia systems
Knowing the aircraft position (GPS) and orientation, the
distance to the ground point, and the angular orientation
of the laser beam, the position of a point on the earths
surface can be found.
Several footprints of laser are available to perform
various tasks. For example, large footprints VS small
footprints in forested and bare-ground areas.
LIDAR DEM
USGS
DEM
WHOA! (1 m resolution)
Minus
Canopy Height
(m)
Click on image
Source:
http://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu/example1.htm
Contour Lines
Characteristics of Contours
Characteristics of Contours
Locating Contours
Breaklines:
linear Topographic features which have
uniform slopes.
Must be triangle sides.
For example: notice how roads are shown in
the TIN and in the contours.
allowed error.
Example: not more than 10% of tested points shall
be in error in horizontal position by more than
1/30 inch, what about a map 1 in: 100 ft
Project 2
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