SATELLITE IMAGERY IN TOURIST MAPPING 
Eng. Mihail Albotä 
Ioana Popoiu 
Romanian Committee of Photogrammetry 
and Remote Sensing 
Bucharest (Romania) 
Abstract: The possibility to use analogic satellite imagery 
(which remote sensing provides us in the late years) in tourist 
map compilation is approached in this paper. 
The integrate use of the existing cartographic and  photo- 
grammetric materials, of the ground and descriptive data clo- 
sely related to the extraterrestrial space data has been stu- 
died. The experimental works have dealt with 11100 ooo and smal- 
ler scales and some tourist zones in Romania (the Fägäras Moun- 
tains, the Banat Mountains, the Persani Mountains, the Danube 
Delta), as well. 
Various fields of activity are well known, as yet, using re- 
mote sensing satellite imagery, although field resolution of such 
an image does not meet the metric requirements, necessary for 
small and very small,and seldom medium scale tourist mappings. 
Approaching thematic cartography field of activity, namely 
tourist mapping,we have studied possibility to use analogic sa- 
tellite imagery, which remote sensing places at our disposal in 
recent years. Experiments related to such a map compilation in 
the Danube Delta - an area of great tourist interest - which we 
have begun since 1975, were completely successfully implemented. 
However, for this map compilation, now, it is not the situa- 
tion to use remote sensing satellite imagery exclusively, but to 
employ all topographic, photogrammetric and cartographic requir- 
ed materials and satellite imagery completely. Field works are 
doubtlessly necessary, as for any thematic maps, but the possibi- 
lity to use aerial and space photographs in primary cartographic 
document compilations has proved to be an unquestitnable advantage. 
In our opinion, contribution of the satellite imagery cover- 
ing large surfaces, sometimes, the whole zone being the object of 
the respective tourist map can be emphasied in much more ways.