Guide to Making 3D Maps with Satellite Imagery in R

Author here, I wrote this to show how you can use the rayshader package to generate 3D maps in R using free and open data (in this case, Landsat 8 imagery and SRTM elevation data). You can check out rayshader&#x27;s Github repo here:<p>Github: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.com&#x2F;tylermorganwall&#x2F;rayshader" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.github.com&#x2F;tylermorganwall&#x2F;rayshader</a><p>And browse the documentation (with rendered examples) and README on its website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rayshader.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rayshader.com</a>

This is super interesting - I had no idea you could do this kind of thing with R. Very cool and a great step-by-step guide.<p>I also second the &quot;rite of passage to fight with GDAL&quot; sentiment :)<p>I&#x27;d also recommend Robert Simmon&#x27;s introduction to GDAL for stitching, etc: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openvisconf.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;#rsimmon-video-item" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.openvisconf.com&#x2F;2017&#x2F;#rsimmon-video-item</a>

Here I thought you&#x27;d be doing photogrammetry or something to produce 3d maps directly from 2d imagery.<p>Maybe title should be &quot;making 3d maps with satellite imagery and 3d maps&quot; ;)

Is this similar to what vricon[1] does?<p>I was searching around and found something noting they won a contract to build the Army&#x27;s One World Terrain 3d model. This OWT appears to be some kind of classification for applying sat imagery over terrain data sets, maybe?<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vricon.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.vricon.com</a>

Has this been tried on something like a cityscape?<p>If so, it seems like you could fly a drone with two cameras at relatively low altitude and get insane resolution for things like cityscapes at a pretty low cost<p>====== EDIT: Meant to add that your webpage discussion was great &amp; thanks for sharing!

Is anyone else getting a mandatory login page when trying using the SRTM tile downloader?

How do I 3d print it with colors?

this is super cool. i think we should do this in tiles and after that assemble a map of all of the US. The Sattelite data seems to be there, it&#x27;s just time to download, build + stich, right?