Issues in the design of an image-map workstation

Neal Olander

doi:10.1117/12.157156

15 October 1993 Issues in the design of an image-map workstation

Neal Olander

Proceedings Volume 1943, State-of-the-Art Mapping; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157156
Event: Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1993, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

An image map is a hardcopy cartographic product consisting of rectified imagery overlaid with graphical features and surrounded by marginalia. Image maps contain far more information than conventional maps and will be a major product of mapping systems of the future. Recent advances in computer hardware design have made it possible to generate image maps on commercial hardware platforms at moderate cost and with high throughput rates. This advance is due primarily to increased computer speeds, larger disk capacities, and high-resolution monitors. This paper describes several issues that arose during the design and implementation of the Digital Photogrammetric Workstation (DPW) at GDE Systems - Helava Associates, Inc. The DPW is built from off-the-shelf hardware, components and performs softcopy image exploitation tasks such as image map production, image enhancement, terrain extraction, and perspective scene rendering.

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Neal Olander "Issues in the design of an image-map workstation", Proc. SPIE 1943, State-of-the-Art Mapping, (15 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157156

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