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Cartography II  

Description

Introduction. Physical earth surface-geoid-ellipsoid. Geographical co-ordinates. Plane co-ordinates. Principles of map projections. Study of map distortions. Study of map projections (cylindric, conic, azimuthal). Greek and Cypriot cartographic systems. Transformations between cartographic systems. Measurements from maps-cartometry (measurements of length-area, error analysis, data reduction, statistical sampling and cartography). Interpolation methods (one-dimensional interpolation, two-dimensional interpolation, digital terrain models, data smoothing, hill shading algorithms). Geometrical transformations. Polygon transformations. Data structure transformations. Line simplification algorithms.

Delivery mode

Presential
English

Name

Cartography II
English

UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE

Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation

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