Your site: point, aerial image and terrain

Every environmental study starts at a place. To work with the site map you need two things: an aerial photo to get your bearings and the terrain, to know where the ground rises and falls. Putting both together usually means downloading images, hunting for elevation data and lining it all up by hand. In ecbyts you enter the project point and the model fetches the aerial image and terrain for that location by itself.

The Your site: point, aerial image and terrain tour takes about 3 minutes and uses screens that already exist in ecbyts. You can pause or leave at any time; no account or plan is needed.

What the tour shows, step by step

1. Open the coordinate system. In the Project panel, the Coordinate system section holds your project point, with latitude and longitude fields.
2. Enter the project point. Type the latitude and longitude and press the convert button. The tour only moves on when the point is actually applied.
3. See the aerial image. The aerial image of the site appears under the model, centered on the point. It comes from an online service and can take a few seconds.
4. Or use your own image. In the imagery menu you can upload an orthophoto (a corrected aerial photo) from your computer. This step is only a pointer.
5. See the terrain. The terrain of the point is computed automatically from elevation values from an online service. If the service does not answer, you continue with your own data.
6. Or use your own elevations. With elevation points pasted or uploaded from your computer, you build the terrain and choose the interpolation method, that is, how to estimate height between points.
7. Done. The model shows the aerial image and terrain of your site, when the services answered. You can change the point whenever you like.

What the automatic data depends on

The automatic aerial image and terrain are references to get your bearings. Both depend on online services and have limited resolution, so a topographic survey or field measurements remain the source for design and reporting. The tour saves nothing to the cloud.

How much it costs

The tour is free and requires no sign-up.

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