Last few weeks!

• Two more web pages to complete
  • and the semester is over!
• Open lab during weeks 16 and 17 (final exam week)
• with no new instruction.

Final project?

• A web page showing your exploration of lidar
• with any interactive web map of a point cloud (next module)
• and two other visualizations.
• Think of it as a portfolio showing your 🪄 expertise.

Goals

• Create custom shaded relief maps
• from lidar-derived DEMs and DSMs
• Publish them to a public web page (example)
• Discover how to export layouts to Adobe Creative Cloud.
• Check out this addendum presentation.

Level up

• High-impact maps
  • start with the base layer.
• What can be on every base map?
• Topography: the shape of the landscape.

Blender 3D

• Professional, free and open 3D software
• enables ray tracing to create subtle shading effects.
• Complex user interface
• but will focus on a very narrow use-case.

Sean Conway

• UKy Geography major (2015 graduate)
• making some cool stuff and 💰
• with Blender on Muir Way

Ray tracing

• Captures an atmospheric quality
• by illuminating nearby objects with reflected light.
• Takes a long minute to render.

Compare

• traditional hillshade
• with Blender scene

In-class task

• Create new Map Project, "module-07"
• open application Notebook, shaded-relief.ipynb, and
• create a shaded relief in ArcGIS Pro.

Problems?

• Let's try a different approach
• using multidirectional lighting.
• Use the Imagery > Raster functions...

Prepare for Blender

• Cannot use ArcGIS Pro layers directly.
• Need a 16-bit integer raster
• as a height map
• to displace a plane.

Normalizing values

• We'll use the Notebook
• to normalize our elevation range for Blender.
• Let's do it!

Output

• You should have two files in your project
  • elevations.tif (16-bit integer raster)
  • elevations.tfw (world file to georeference TIFF)

Blender

• Let's fire up Blender
• and use the pre-configured scene: scene.blend in the application folder.
• Close ArcGIS Pro
• and follow the lesson documentation.

Overlay data?

• Additional features can be added to the scene.
• Blender output is minimal but detailed.
• Try not to overdo it.

Data sources

• The USGS National Map
• aggregates many good layers for base maps.
• Download data

Adobe Illustrator?

• Download and install extension.
• Login using ArcGIS credentials.
• Export AIX file from ArcGIS Pro.
• Example AIX file.

Public website

• Create GitHub repository
• enable GitHub Pages
• and edit README.md
• to include map and documentation.

Level up your web game

• Create an index.html in your new repo
• and add custom elements and styles.
• HTML tutorial
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.
• That's next week!

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