DTM for Eastern Europe
Having processed 1:50,000 scale topographic maps, VISICOM has created 5m resolution DTMs with full coverage of following countries: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria. In spite of high accuracy, cost of created models is enough low. Any model of this list can be supplied to consumer within 1 week. DTM represents the elevations of ground surface, location and shape of obstacles to wave propagation. DTM is a digital grid with terrain elevation value assigned to each cell. |  |
DTMs find their application in vast variety of usage fields. DTM are used in RF planning as a fundamental data for waves propagation research, water resources distribution planning, environmental studies, flight simulations etc. There two main methods of DTMs development: 1. Processing of topographic maps data. 2. Processing of stereo pairs of satellite images using photogrammetric technologies.
Both of the methods have some advantages and disadvantages and both are widely used. VISICOM uses both methods for different tasks. For country-wide DTMs creation, topographic maps processing method is used because of it’s low cost with providing all necessary data instead.
Processing 1:50,000 scale topographic maps VISICOM started to create low-budget high accuracy Digital Terrain Models with 5m accuracy. High-accuracy DTMs development was started with creation of models of Eastern European countries so long as Eastern European market is very close to Ukraine. Eleven Eastern European countries are fully covered with 5m resolution DTMs: Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria.
Now our company continues with DTMs development working over other countries territories. Models for the next countries are being produced: Croatia - 80% completed (without southern part), Bosnia - 70% completed (without south-western part), Austria - 50% completed (without northern part and Alps), Greece - 30% completed (northern part), Czech Republic - 20% completed (eastern part), Turkey – European part completed.
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