Levin, Noam (2013): Survey of Western Palestine 1880, Palestine Exploration Fund 1:63,360 mosaicked map [dataset]. PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.819656, Supplement to: Levin, N (2006): The Palestine Exploration Fund map (1871-1877) of the Holy Land as a tool for analyzing landscape changes: the coastal dunes of Israel as a case study. The Cartographic Journal, 43(1), 45-67, https://doi.org/10.1179/000870406X93508
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Published: 2013-09-23 • DOI registered: 2013-10-28
Abstract:
The Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) Survey of Western Palestine (1871-1877) is highly praised for its accuracy and completeness; the first systematic analysis of its planimetric accuracy was published by Levin (2006). To study the potential of these 1:63,360 maps for a quantitative analysis of land cover changes over a period of time, Levin has compared them to 20th century topographic maps. The map registration error of the PEF maps was 74.4 m using 123 control points of trigonometrical stations and a 1st order polynomial. The median RMSE of all control and test points (n = 1104) was 153.6 m. Following the georeferencing of each of the 26 sheets of the PEF maps of the Survey of Western Palestine, a mosaicked file has been created. Care should be taken when analysing historical maps, as it cannot be assumed that their accuracy is consistent at different parts or for different features depicted on them.
Coverage:
Median Latitude: 32.252650 * Median Longitude: 35.012300 * South-bound Latitude: 31.144100 * West-bound Longitude: 34.276500 * North-bound Latitude: 33.361200 * East-bound Longitude: 35.748100
Date/Time Start: 1880-01-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 1880-01-01T00:00:00
Event(s):
pef_1880 * Latitude Start: 31.144100 * Longitude Start: 34.276500 * Latitude End: 33.361200 * Longitude End: 35.748100 * Date/Time: 1880-01-01T00:00:00 * Location: Western Palestine * Comment: The precise coverage of the map is linked behind the event label as kmz-file for google earth.
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License:
Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC-BY-3.0)
Size:
20 data points
Data
| 1 File name | 2 File size [kByte] | 3 File format | 4 URL file |
|---|---|---|---|
| pef_1880_preview.jpg | 822 | preview as jpg | pef_1880_preview.jpg |
| pef_1880.ecw | 169400 | ECW (Enhanced Compression Wavelet) | pef_1880.ecw |
| pef_1880_ecw_aux.xml | 1 | xml of ecw | pef_1880_ecw_aux.xml |
| pef_1880.jp2 | 223700 | JPEG 2000 | pef_1880.jp2 |
| pef_1880_jp2_aux.xml | 1 | xml of jp2 | pef_1880_jp2_aux.xml |
