One of the latest projects I’ve been working on 🗺

One of the latest projects I’ve been working on is viewshed analysis is viewshed analysis from peaks and fire towers. Basically I am working on developing a few different products:

• Maps that show viewable locations from the mountain summit such as major peaks and lakes
• KML Google Maps that show viewable locations from summits
• Lists of peaks and lakes viewable from the summit including compass direction, height and angle.

While running the viewshed is relatively easy in R using gdal_viewshed what has proven more complicated is designing an attractive map without too much detail or clutter and limiting the view window to adjust for ledges with views in one direction. Plus fully automating the process in R. It can be done but just mastering it takes some practice.