LIDAR

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LIDAR-Laser Image Dectection and Ranging

Nominal Area Choropleth Maps

http://mapmaker.rutgers.edu/355/africa_political.gif

Nominal area choropleth maps are used to display nominal data. This map is geograpical information about Africa. Variation in color is associated with qauntitative data,

Unstandardized Choropleth Maps

http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2005/3051/images/2000choropleth

Unstandardized choropleth maps utilize data sets of raw numbers. This one displays the number of water withdrawals by state across the US.

Standardized Choropleth Maps

http://www.socialexplorer.com/pub/maps/images/sample-thematic-map.png
Standardized choropleth maps allow comparison of distribution among different areas.

Univariate Choropleth Maps

www.cdc.gov/pcd/issues/2007/oct/07_0091.htm

Univariate choropleth maps display a single set of data. The one above illustrates poverty in the United States.

Bivariate Choropleth Maps

cristinamazza.blogspot.com/2008/07/bivariate-...

This mapping technique uses color to solve a problem of represented in four dimesions; two dimensiona-longitude and latitiude and two statistical variables.

Unclassed Choropleth Maps

http://www.esds.ac.uk/international/support/user_guides/gisoverview.asp

This technique assigns shadings proportional to the data values so that the choropleth map doe not have to classify the data.

Classed Choropleth Maps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choropleth_map
Classed choropleth maps are thematic map in which areas are shaded or patterned to proportion to the measurement of a statistical variable being displayed on a map. The map above is of the 2004 Presidential Election.

Doppler Radar

katesmaps.blogspot.com/2008_08_01_archive.html
Doppler radar is a specialized radar that makes use of the doppler effect to produce velocity data about objects at a distance. The image above is a illustration of a hurricane brewing over Flordia.

Parallel Coordinate Graph

www.stat.columbia.edu/.../parallel_coordi.html
Parallel coordinate graphs sjow a set of points in an n-dimensional space, a backdrop is drawn consisting of n-parallel lines, typically vertical and equally spaced.

Triangular Plot

www.pmel.noaa.gov/.../fu_2007/msg00384.html

Triangular plots is a graph of three variables, proportions of the three variables plotted always sum to some constant.

Windrose

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brosen_windrose_el.svg

The wind rose is a graphic tool used by meterologist to give a succinct view of how wind speed and direction are typically distributed at a particular location.

Climograph

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Climographs are graphical depictions of the monthly precipitation and temperature conditions for a selected place.

Population Profile

camellia.shc.edu/.../statisticsassign.htm
Population profiles is a chart showing the number of people as a function of thier ages. The one above illlustrates the population profile for Mobile County. The age is divided into increments of 4 located on the y axis and the percentage of each age class to the total population is located along the x-axis.

Index Value Plot

waterwatch.usgs.gov/?m=pa07d&w=plot

Index Value Plots show information that happens over time. The one above is that of streamflow over a seven day average in the period of a year.

Lorenz Curve

www.answers.com/topic/lorenz-curve

Lorenz Curve's are graphs showing the concentration and ownership of economic quantities such as wealth and income; it's formed by plotting the cumulative distribution of the amount of the variable concerned against the cumulative frequency distribution of the individual possesing the amount.

Bilateral Graph

neuropolitics.org/defaultmay06.asp

Bilateral graphs show at least two different variations or comprasions of variables.

Similarity Matrix

www.jbaas.com/articles/vol_2_n2_c7.php
Similarity matrices are a matrix of scores that express the similarity between two data points.

Correlation Matrix

yin.che.wisc.edu/images.htm

Correlation matrices describe correlation amoung variables with square symmetrical MxM matrix with the element equal to the correlation coeffient between the variables. The diagnol elements are always equal to 1.

DOQQ

www.crwr.utexas.edu/.../Donnelly/termproject.htm

DEM

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DEM-Digital Elevation Model is a representation of ground surface topography or terrain represntation raster or as triangular irregular network built using remote sensing technique or form land surveying. This type of mapping system is based on digitally produced relief maps.

Cartographic Animations

www.geoinnovations.co.uk/html/Markets.html

Cartographic animations is graphic art that occurs in time.

Statistical Map

www.restmap.net/.../MapLinks_ME.htm

Statistical maps show a specific type of map in which the variation in quantity of a factor such as rainfall, population, or crops in a geopgraphic area is indicated. The above map indicates the hardiness of Maine.

Cartogram

http://politicalmaps.org/2004-presidential-election-maps/

This is a cartogram displaying the political map of the US and the states that are democrate and republicans. A cartogram with some thematic mapping variable. As shown in the map above the geometry or shape of the map is distorted in order to convey the information of the alternative variable.

Flow Map

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Flow maps display a sequence or process. The one above show the steps to making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. When displayed the process seems easy and less confusing. This could be good for teaching simple process or even chores and household duties.

Isoline Map

http://proceedings.esri.com/library/userconf/proc02/pap0167/p0167.htm



Isolines connect points of equal on a map. Like exact values including temperature and elevation, and other ratio values.

Proportional Circle Map

www.geog.ucsb.edu/.../proportional_symbols.html

Choropleth Map

http://my.ilstu.edu/~jrcarter/Geo204/Choro/Tom/



Choropleth maps are based on predefined aerial units, designed in a multi-colored cheakerboard pattern.
Each group of data displayed and organized in a ratio value, so color graded series is used to show the intensity from greatest to least. the darker the shade of a color the more intense and vice-versa goes for the less intense.

Dot Distribution Map

www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/help.php

Dot distribution maps uses dots symbol to show a feature or phenomenon. This type of map rely on a visual scatter to show spatial pattern as shown in the map above.

Propaganda Map

www.historum.com/showthread.php?t=9905

Propaganda maps are used as persausive cartography. These maps are usually created for poltical propaganda as a means to sway the opinions of the people.

This made itself shows how people percieved that Germany would be attack, false representation can lead people to believe false information as done so in this map.

Hypsometric Map

http://www.reliefshading.com/colors/hypsometric.html

Hypsometric maps shows elevations by contours or by shading, tinting or batching.

PLSS Map

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   www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.../landrecords.htm

PLSS- Public Land Survey System is a way of subdividing and describing land in the United States. PLSS is used to divide public land domain, owned by the Federal government for the benefit of the citizens of the US. PLSS land domain is subject to subdivision by a rectangular system of surveying.

Cadastrel Map

www.spaceage.co.in/cadastral-surveys.php

Cadastrel maps are illustrated in a sense to show boundaries and ownership of land parcels. A cadastre usually includes details of ownership, the tenure, and and precise location, the dimesions, the cultivations if rural, and value of individual parcels of land.

Thematic Map

www.excelcharts.com/.../

This type of map is designed to display a particular theme associated with a specific geographic area. These maps can portray physical, social, political, cultural, economical, sociological, agricultural or any other aspect of a city, region, nation or continent.

Topographic Map

www.search.com/reference/Topographic_map

This type of map is characterized by large scale detail and quantitative representation of relief, usually using contour lines in modern mapping. This type of map usually shows natural and man-made features and is a combination of two or more maps combined as a map series.

Planimetric Map

www.nps.gov/.../online_books/fova/clr/clrt.htm

A map indicating only horizontal positions of features; without regard to elevation, veritical information is completely ignored.

Mental Map

http://www.deanstalk.net/sapienstribune/2008/01/page/3/

A mental map refers to a person's personal point of view perception of their own world. Each person's mental map is completely different from the next. It's a type of mental processing composed of psychological transformations by which an individual can aquire, code, store, recall and decode information about relative locations.

DLG

ga.water.usgs.gov/olympics/columbus.html

DLG-digital line maps. The digital format standard published by US Geological Survey for exchanging castographic data files and in which the USGS delivers topographical maps in vector format.

DRG

egsc.usgs.gov/isb/pubs/factsheets/fs08801.html
A digital raster graphic (DRG) is a scanned image of a U.S geological survey topographic map. The scanned image includes all map collar information. The image inside the map neatline is georeferanced to the surface of the Earth.

Isopleths

www.meteoswiss.admin.ch/.../ozone/umkehr.html
An isopleth is a curve or line of equal values. All of the following are prime examples of isopleths: isobar, isoyets, isotachs etc.

Isopach

www.republicenergy.com/.../Barnett.aspx
An isopach is an isoline that connects points of equal thickness of geological stratum formation or group of formations.

Isohyets

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_f9wcd3zZdq0/STluZCmHJPI/AAAAAAAAAM8/_JExxtqHRSc/s320/isohyets

An isohyet is a line drawn on a map connecting points that recieve equal rainfall.

Isotachs

catalogofmaps.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive...

The map shows isotachs, lines on a given surface connecting points with equal wind speed together with isobars.

Isobars

ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/.../sfcobs/cntr/wind.rxml

Isobars are lines that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure on weather maps. They are drawn so that they never cross each other. Meterologists use isobars on weather maps to depict atomospheric pressure changes over an area and to make predictions concerning wind flow.

Scatterplot

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A scatterplot is a useful summary of a set of bivariate date (two variables), usually drawn before working out a correlation coefficient or to fit a line of regression. Its a good visul to see the relationship between two variables, and aids in the interpretation of correlation coefficient or regression line. There will eith be a postive,negative or non- association depending on the relationship between the two variables.

Stem and Leaf Plot

jmaps008.blogspot.com/008_09_01_archive.html

A stem and leaf plot summarizes the shape of a set of data and provides extra details regarding individual data. The data is arranged by value place. The digits in the largest place is referred to as the "stems" and the digits in the smallest place is referred to as the "leaves". This particular stem and leaf plot displays the ages of the people that attended a family reunion.

Star Plot

http://www.blogger.com/www.survo.fi/gallery/038.html

Star plots are used to examine the relative values for single data points and to locate similar or disimliar points. Star plots are generated in a mulit-plot format with many stars on each page, each star representing one observation.

Box Plot

http://www.physics.csbsju.edu/stats/box2.html

This simple box plot, this type of graph is usually used in descriptive statistics to display the disturbution of data and the relationship in between based on the five number summary. The image is pretty self explanatory showing the number ranging from the minimun, first quartile, median, third quartile and maximum.

Histogram

www.visualization.hpc.mil/wiki/images/9/98/ParaviewHistogram.png

This is an example of a typical histogram. A histogram is a graph that displays tubular frequencies, shown as adjacent rectangles. This graph has vivid colors in order to decipher the information presented.