Techniques of forest visualisation with the use of IKONOS image - Kozienice Forest case

摘要

Visualizations of forest landscape are useful in communicating the structure of land cover patterns to professionals and to the public by making the information on environment more attractive and easier to interpret. In order to demonstrate the current potential and future needs in this context a sample visualization of a forest test area was prepared using IKONOS satellite image, aerial photographs and some pre-existing GIS datasets. Images draped over a surface terrain model supplied texture data for a part of the Kozienice Forest. GIS layers were used for the satellite image enhancement and as supplementary data ameliorating visualization itself. The presented discussion on the quality of the final product referred to the comparison of IKONOS based visualization with an orthophotomap of the test site.