Meteorological Surface Analysis Using Perspective Topographic Maps

Joseph M. Russo; John G. W Kelley; Paul G. Knight; Frederick J. Gadomski

doi:10.1117/12.942656

25 January 1987 Meteorological Surface Analysis Using Perspective Topographic Maps

Joseph M. Russo, John G. W Kelley, Paul G. Knight, Frederick J. Gadomski

Proceedings Volume 0846, Digital Image Processing and Visual Communications Technologies in Meteorology; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942656
Event: Cambridge Symposium on Optics in Medicine and Visual Image Processing, 1987, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

A computer-generated, perspective topographic map was used for meteorological surface analysis to evaluate its advantage over traditional map backgrounds. A traditional and perspective map were compared for a precipitation case study that followed the passage of warm front in the northeastern U.S. Two precipitation data sets were analyzed against two different map backgrounds centered on Pennsylvania. Besides its immediate 3-dimensional "feel," the perspective map delineated the surface topographical features that were coupled with the prefrontal winds to produce the orographically-lifted precipitation patterns. The computer-generated map was judged superior to the traditional map used for surface analysis, especially in the case of the mesoscale data set.

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Joseph M. Russo, John G. W Kelley, Paul G. Knight, and Frederick J. Gadomski "Meteorological Surface Analysis Using Perspective Topographic Maps", Proc. SPIE 0846, Digital Image Processing and Visual Communications Technologies in Meteorology, (25 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.942656

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