Una grande mappa per una piccola isola: il rilevamento delle isole Faroe

The Faroe Islands are a series of islands 300 kilometers North-West of Scotland. The Faroes are part of Denmark and work with the Danish authorities. They have a subpolar climate, and a population of 52,000 people. As the islands are developed and change with new buildings and agriculture, the autho...

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Main Author: Eloise Mitchell
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Italian
Published: mediaGEO soc. coop. 2021
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.48258/geo.v25i2.1792
https://doaj.org/article/8825d06888a948b99b7ff57079e6d49f
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Summary:The Faroe Islands are a series of islands 300 kilometers North-West of Scotland. The Faroes are part of Denmark and work with the Danish authorities. They have a subpolar climate, and a population of 52,000 people. As the islands are developed and change with new buildings and agriculture, the authorities need up-to-date maps of the islands. The Umhví¸rvisstovan use Pix4Dmatic for large scale mapping on of the land to maintain recent records. They gathered over 2,000 images to survey 2.3 square kilometers. It was a successful surveying project with an open-access orthomosaic as an output.