Chippewa Valley, WI

These two maps are of the same area within Wisconsin but of different dates and one includes an elevation effect. The technique I used to create this effect is different from other methods but I see no visual differences between my maps and others. ArcGIS has a tutorial for how to perform this merging of a hillshade raster and an image but I wasn't able to get it to work. If you want to try it you can do so here.

I started with a DEM of the Chippewa Valley and created a Hillshade DEM within ArcMap. Next I brought in a pansharpened image and changed the transparency to 25%. I used photoshop to greatly increase the contrast and after doing so the final image with the hillshade worked exactly how I wanted it to. Below I've included the map without the hillshaded raster to show the difference this method made in the map.

Map with hillshade. Image from 10/27/2013

Map without hillshade. Image from 9/25/2013

Programs used: Illustrator, Photoshop, ArcMap 10.2 and Erdas Imagine
Full resolution: 26" x 18"
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February 2014 Wisconsin

Wisconsin got extremely lucky this year with the weather in terms of satellite imagery but if you lived in Wisconsin this past February you know that it was one of the coldest months in recorded history for the state. Shown on the poster are two images, one of Wisconsin shown in the visible spectrum and the other using infrared information. By using infrared data we can bring out different features within an image. The most noticeable change is that now clouds stick out much better so it is easier to tell what is snow and what is a cloud.

Programs used: Imagine 2013, ArcMap 10.2, Photoshop, Illustrator
Full Resolution: 26" x 18"
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