What Is Mapping Toolbox?
Mapping Toolbox™ provides algorithms and functions for transforming geographic data and creating map displays. You can visualize your data in a geographic context, build map displays from more than 60 map projections, and transform data from a variety of sources into a consistent geographic coordinate system.
Mapping Toolbox supports a complete workflow for managing geographic data. You can import vector and raster data from a wide range of file formats and web map servers. The toolbox lets you process and customize data using trimming, interpolation, resampling, coordinate transformations, and other techniques. Data can be combined with base map layers from multiple sources in a single map display. You can export data in file formats such as shapefile, GeoTIFF, and KML.
Published: 16 Sep 2020
SPEAKER: Mapping Toolbox provides visualization techniques and command line functions to analyze geographic data and create map displays in MATLAB. The Toolbox provides functionality to import and export raster data, such as the elevation map of Europe and vector data, such as the continental coastlines around Europe.
You can also retrieve map data from over 1,000 web map service servers, perform geographic calculations on the data, and view it along with other vector and raster data in a map display. You can visualize 2D maps with base maps. For example, you can display the map of Mount Mansfield in Vermont, change the base map on which to plot data to satellite imagery, and display the track log while flying a small glider.
In addition, you can draw a map of your choice, for example, a map of Africa in India. Switch from one projection to another choosing between cylindrical, conic or azimuthal projection families. Once the projection is decided, you can add major cities, lakes and rivers, display cartographic elements such as coordinate labels, graphics scale and text labels.
Mapping Toolbox also lets you create thematic maps, in which you display quantified facts, such as population density of New England. You can also visualize geospatial data in 3D. For example, you can animate a flight from Mauna Loa Observatory to the top of Mauna Loa volcano and visualize the UAV flight track.
Mapping Toolbox supports 3D coordinate transformations in geometric geodesy. As an example of geodesy, you can determine the shortest path between Norfolk, Virginia and Cape Saint Vincent in Portugal, or the direct course and convert the distance between them to other units, such as kilometers. For more information on Mapping Toolbox, please visit the product page or click on the link below.