How do you get a globe into your computer?Originally Posted by Rik
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If it's a real globe - take a picture of the globe using a telecentric lens, reproject the picture area from Orthographic to any equal-area projection and measure area as described above. If you're using a regular lens on a camera then use a perspective Orthographic projection (the exact name escapes me at the moment) as the source and proceed as above.
If it's already digital, reproject directly to an equal-area projection and measure pixels as above.
It's all HandsomeRob's fault ...How do you get a globe into your computer?
-Rob A>
All good ideas. Wish I had thought of them before I started counting pixels
Last edited by Rik; 02-13-2009 at 11:38 AM.
You know, I'll betcha Waldronate's idea would probably work for my problem of converting icomaps to a reprojectible form. Next time I'm not in a time crunch, I'll have to try that.
Funny. "Waldronate," "icomap," and "reprojectable," are underlined as misspellings, but, "betcha," is hunky-dory. As is, "hunky-dory."
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