2004 UC Proceedings Abstract
 Animating the Battle of Lake Erie With ArcGIS Track: Cartography and Map Production Author(s): Yu Zhou On September 10, 1813, Master Commandant Oliver Hazard Perry met and defeated a British flotilla at the Battle of Lake Erie. Perry, with a squadron of nine ships, achieved one of the most significant victories of the War of 1812. The victory secured control of the lake for the United States and became a valuable morale booster for a country desperately in need of good news. To record this historical event, artists have made many paintings of the battle. These presentations, however, usually do not contain accurate spatial information. Scales and directions, for example, are always distorted. In this presentation, maps of ships' location at different time during the battle, based on the latest researches, are produced with ArcGIS. Landsat images are used as the background of the maps. An animation of the battle is also produced. Yu Zhou Bowling Green State University Department of Geography Department of geography Bowling Green , OH 43403 US Phone: 419-372-7828 E-mail: yzhou@bgnet.bgsu.edu |
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