EVS-Islands

Pukaruha Atoll is off the beaten path. It lies at the eastern limits of the Tuamotus. At the northern end of the main motu is a village. An airstrip is located in the middle of the main motu.

Now for the real scoop. Artistically this is my best map and most detailed. It is constructed of close to 1,000 unique polygons making up the various layers of infornmation. I used Digital Globe imagery found in Google Earth to construct this map. The imagery is 1-meter resolution and I mapped the hell out of it! The project took about 20 hours.

Frequent visitors know that I primarily work off of Landsat ETM+ 2000 mosaic imagery. This island and it's neighbor are not covered in the available Landsat imagery. I am sure that it was a fluke that this mosaic was not made available to the public. However, I wanted to map it. So I checked out the imagery on Google Earth and found this Digital Globe base imagery.

The resulting map work is exquisite. My work on the lagoon's reef is a work of art and it is accurate.

For those of you that just want to see my latest project, this is it.

For those of you that appreciate a gorgeous map, this is it as well.

view Pukaruha Atoll on Google Maps

Enjoy!

Labels: atoll, EVS, Global Mapper, island, Landsat, map, Marplot, Pacific, Polynesia, Tuamotus

Posted by Mr Minton on Friday, April 06, 2007 at 4/06/2007 06:10:00 AM | Permalink