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Anabranching
My favorite part of being a pilot is the opportunity to see patterns across the landscape. While I was working on other riverine projects this winter, I found myself distracted by Dr. Aileen Buckley’s how-to on symbology of rivers using elevation data from satellite imagery. I immediately wanted to try it out on the Koyukuk…
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Erratic Behavior: Mapping 3D Points of Interest
For my birthday this year, I bought myself a present: The 3D Point of Interest (POI) mapping ability in DJI GS Pro. A small splurge to be sure ($10), but oh, the great joy it brought me! As soon as it was loaded on my mobile device, I immediately started my flight plan with a…
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Red Relief Image Maps
A few years ago, a colleague of mine shared a paper with me about a new method of visualizing elevation data using slope gradient and convexities/concavities, called a Red Relief Image Model. I was initially skeptical – as far as I could tell, the visualization wasn’t all that different from a multi-directional hillshade with a…
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Base Layers (or How this Blog Came To Be)
Welcome to the Alaska Mapplications website! So often, Alaska is an afterthought for the average U.S. cartographer, relegated to a box in the map marginalia (nobody puts Alaska in a corner!). Alternatively, when cartographers from Outside do focus on Alaska, their lack of local knowledge is glaringly obvious (or perhaps, to be more fair, it…
