Europe: Terrain & Seafloor 36x48
Map elements include:
A digital elevation model of all continental terrain within the map frame. Individual publicly available tiles of terrain data were sequentially downloaded from the U.S. Geological Survey in TIFF format. Each individual tile was then stitched into a continental mosaic, then “clipped” to highly detailed coastlines. All geoprocessing was performed using ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro software.
A digital bathymetric model of the surrounding seafloor. Raw, publicly available bathymetric TIFF imagery tiles were obtained from the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) via the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and combined into a mosaic that fills the map frame. All seafloor geoprocessing was performed using ESRI’s ArcGIS Pro software.
A detailed depiction of:
Inland water bodies, including intermittent lakes and dry salt flats
Mountain summits with corresponding elevations in feet
Volcanic mountain summits with corresponding elevations in feet
Mountain ranges, plateaus, valleys, and other significant landforms
Glaciers, courtesy of the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) program
Islands, points, capes, and other coastal features
Deserts
National, state, and territorial capitals and significant cities scaled by population
International and subnational political boundaries
Seafloor ridges, seamount chains, basins, fracture zones, and other significant features
Pinpoint locations of significant seamounts, guyots, banks, shoals, reefs, and other submerged features
Europe: Terrain & Seafloor was Ridgeline's fourth map completed in the Continental Terrain & Seafloor Series. Revealing map highlights include volcanism in Iceland, Italy, Greece, and Spain's Islas Canarias; high population density in the British Isles and northwest Europe; and the complex seafloor of the Tyrrhenian Sea and central Mediterranean. In order to incorporate as much of the region as possible in the map frame, it was the first continental map produced using a spherical projection type, which the map's graticules (lines of latitude and longitude) make apparent.