Remote Sensing

The remote senseing data presented here is an aerial photograph that makes use of Infared emultion to create the false colors. The photograph happens to be the house I lived in from the time I was born in 1972 until 1990. It is interesting to see the changes, many brought By Hurricane Andrew. There were alot more trees when I lived there. It also conjures up alot of memories for me seeing the home and neighborhood from this view.

http://earth.google.com/

LIDAR

LIDAR or Light Detection and Ranging is technology that measures the properties of scattered light to find the range or other information about an object. The following picture is a LIDAR image of Mount St. Helens in Wasington State.
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04/Monitoring/ImagesGraphics/LIDAR_crater_dome_sept03_and_nov04_animated.gif

Doppler Radar

The Doppler Radar image shown here is of Hurricane Claudette getting ready to make landfall on the coast of Texas. The areas in different colors represent the velocity and intensity of precipitation. The areas in red represent the most intense areas of the storm.

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories/images/claudette-radar071503-1536z.jpg

Black and White Aeiral Photo

The Black and White Aerial Photograph is of Oberlin Kansas. The photo shows agricultural land use that surrounds the city. It also shows the location of water wells around the city.

http://www.kgs.ku.edu/Hydro/Publications/2001/OFR01_50/gifs/fig1.jpg

Infared Aerial Photo

The picture here is an aerial infared photograph of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. The photograph shows how the different colors of the infared spectrum look.

http://www.ces.clemson.edu/semaps/al/lomt-a.jpg

Cartiographic Animation

The cartiographic animation was made to show the possible flooding that could occur in Galviston Texas from a hurricane.This animation assumes a storm surge of up to 20 feet.
http://www.3dnworld.com/users/1/images/Galveston_TX20000.jpg

Statistical Map

This map is shows the rate of change in larceny crimes committed different areas of Denver Colorado between 2001 and 2002. The map shows increase, decrease, and no change represented by different colors. Each area also has a number representing the increase or decrease percentage.

http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/335/images/SOPA_lar02.jpg

Cartogram

The cartogram here depicts the proportion of gross domestic product per capita by different regions of the world. The larger the GDP per capita for that region is, the larger that region is depicted. This can be seen by looking at the size and GDP of South America compared to North America.

http://maps.grida.no/library/files/world_economy_cartogram_001.jpg

Flow Map

This flow map is used to show cause and effect. The rectangle in the center with the bold blue border signifies the event that occured. The rectangles on the left shows what caused the event. The rectangles on the right show the effect of the event.http://www.nhcs.k12.nc.us/htree/Curriculum/ThinkingMaps/MultiFlowMap.jpg

Isoline Map

The isolines on this map of the island of Maui in Hawaii are used to show the distribution of rainfall. The map demonstrates how dramatically different the amount of rainfall can be for very small area. The closer the lines and darker shade of green signify the areas with the most rainfall. http://www.esri.com/news/arcwatch/0207/graphics/feature1-lg.jpg

Proportional Circle Map

This map shows the population of Mexicans in the Western United States and uses proportion circles to show the Mexican population in each state. According to the map key, the larger the circle the greater the Mexican population in that state. As you can see by the proportion circles, states bordering Mexico tend to have the largest populations.

http://www.neiu.edu/~jrthomas/377/circle.jpg

Chloropleth Map

This Choropleth map show how much hay was harvested across the United States in 2002. The darker the color the more hay harvested in that area. The map shows the majority of harvesting bin done in the midwester and northwestern regions of the country.

http://www.nass.usda.gov/research/atlas02/Crops/Hay%20and%20Forage%20Crops%20Harvested/Hay%20-%20All%20Hay%20Including%20Alfalfa,%20Other%20Tame,%20Small%20Grain,%20and%20Wild,%20Harvested%20Acres-choropleth%20map.gif

Dot Distribution Map

The following map is a dot distribution map and it can be useful in determining where people live and how many people there are in a given area.. This map identifies the distribution and concentration of military families in the state of Ohio. http://operationmilitarykids.ohio4h.org/resources/images/dotMap.gif

Propaganda Map

The following map was used as propaganda by the allied forces to show the growing threat that Europe faced from the expansionist policy of Nazi Germany. The map shows in black the areas that Germany had already annexed by 1937. Each country on the map has year in which the Nazi Germany would take over the coutry. The contrast of the colors shows how soon it will happen. The darker colored countries would be taken over sooner than the lighter colored countries.

www.bl.uk/whatson/images/10.jpg

Hypsometric Map

This hypsometric map of central Greece show the different elevations of the terrain across the region. The elevation is contrasted in by the use of contours and colors. Darker colors represent higher elevations and the light colors represent areas of lower elevation.
http://www.uam.es/proyectosinv/sterea/beocia/images/figure_8_gis.jpg

PLSS Map

This is A PLSS map of the townships in Alabama. The boundaries marked in blue represent the townships within Franklin county.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~alfrankl/plss_basemap_alabama.jpg