From Satellite Image to Map· a New Guide Map for Finnish Rural Areas

In the research project called !fA Guide map for Finnish Rural Areas" we have developed an entirely new map production process as well as the map output. The goal was to develop a map for different distribution purposes, for emergency vehicle use as well as for general transportation. The source information was gathered as follows: land use information was interpreted from Landsat satellite images, height zones were generated from a OEM, roads and names were digitized manually on the screen, residential information was retrieved from the nationwide building register. In the production process, both vector and raster techniques were used. The final map output was designed to match the quality and type of source information. The Intergraph MGE-system (Map Publishing application) on Unix-workstation was utilized in the project.