Mapping Hacks

by Schuyler Erle, Rich Gibson and Jo Walsh

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Compositing your own terrain models with Landsat-7 and SRTM, pt. II

March 24th, 2005 by Schuyler

Some explorations of the Straits of Gibraltar at a recent “tactical media”
workshop in Ljubljana yielded some insights into using GRASS to marshal geodata
for 3-D terrain modelling. The first image is a false color composite of
Tangier, Morocco, and the second is a true color composite. The third is a
rendered 3-D animation (about 600k) of the Straits looking eastward, with
Tarifa, Spain on the left, and Tangier on the right. All three were made
using free geodata from NASA and F/OSS tools, including GRASS, GDAL, and
POV-Ray.




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