Mapping Toolbox™ 2.7

Product Description

• Introduction and Key Features
• Importing Map and Geospatial Data
• Organizing and Manipulating Map and Geospatial Data
• Displaying Map and Geospatial Data
• Analyzing Map and Geospatial Data
• Visualizing and Analyzing Terrain Data

Analyzing Map and Geospatial Data

The Mapping Toolbox provides numerous capabilities for geographic analysis, including functions and tools for geometric, navigational, and statistical analysis.

The geometric functions let you:

• Trace a great circle or rhumb line given a starting point, starting direction (azimuth), and distance
• Find the great circle or rhumb line distance or azimuth between two points
• Find intersections between great and small circles
• Use interactive tools to construct tracks and small circles
• Calculate elevation angles, quadrangle areas, and polygon areas

The navigation functions let you:

• Perform dead reckoning and cross-fix positions
• Determine drift velocities and drift-corrected headings
• Use waypoints

The statistics functions let you:

• Convert between latitude-longitude and equal-area coordinates
• Calculate the mean location and standard distance or deviation for collections of points
• Generate histograms for geographic points with equal-area or equirectangular bins

The Mapping Toolbox also lets you analyze georeferenced imagery and gridded data. For example, you can:

• Construct data profiles and cross-sections
• Determine the geographic or map locations of gridded data features, such as extrema and contours
• Determine the geographic or map locations of image features as revealed by algorithms in the Image Processing Toolbox (available separately)

The Mapping Toolbox lets you interactively plot and manipulate great circles and rhumb lines. Click on image to see enlarged view.