Quick map revision using digital line maps produced from ortophotomaps of Boshiqa area - Northern Iraq

Year, pages: 2020, 320 - 330

In a fast developing country like Iraq, there is an increasing and urgent demand for the most up-to-date terrain information in digital form as well as graphical format such as maps. Recent advances in photogrammetry, cartography and Computer technology provide this possibility with a great speed, high degree of precision and a minimum of effort in the field. This paper describes and discusses the application of these techniques in producing an up-to-date revised digital line map for the Bashiqa area using an orthophotomap (produced from up-to-date aerial photos) and existing old map. Use was made of a manual digitizer with interactive graphic display system. The digital interactive data acquisition, interactive editing and automated drawing are discussed. Field checks on the up- dated maps were done and their accuracy is discussed here. Moreover, correlation of the up-dated map with the old existing map is carried out.

Numan, N. 2020. Quick map revision using digital line maps produced from ortophotomaps of Boshiqa area - Northern Iraq. In Geografický časopis, vol. 42, no.3, pp. 320-330. 0016-7193.

Numan, N. (2020). Quick map revision using digital line maps produced from ortophotomaps of Boshiqa area - Northern Iraq. Geografický časopis, 42(3), 320-330. 0016-7193.

Publisher: Geografický ústav SAV/Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences