How to overlay a UIAxes surface on a UIFigure 3D image

I have two components, a UIFigure globe and a UIAxes hemisphere created with surf(). I want to overlay the surf object on the globe, but they are different type objects. The UIAxes object is a subset of the UIFigure, so they do not appear together. How can I resolve this?

Here is the UIFigure globe:

and here is the UIAxes hemisphere:

The relevant code looks like this:

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% Create UIFigure and hide until all components are created
app.UIFigure = uifigure('Visible', 'off');
app.UIFigure.Position = [0 0 1000 650];

% Create Image
img = world_globe(app.UIFigure);

% Create UIAxes
app.UIAxes = uiaxes(app.UIFigure);
app.UIAxes.Position = [0 0 1000 600];
app.UIAxes.XLim = [0 1100];
app.UIAxes.YLim = [0 580];

app.UIAxes.Visible = 'off';
app.UIFigure.Visible = 'on';  

% App creation and deletion
methods (Access = public)

% Construct app
function app = globe_frame

% Create UIFigure and components
createComponents(app);

% Register the app with App Designer
registerApp(app, app.UIFigure)
globe = app;
color = [0.8 0.8 0.8];      % grey
obj = draw_hemisphere(globe,90,45,color);
end

%--------------------------------------------------------
function object = draw_hemisphere(globe,azLeft,azRight,color)
global xEarth;  % Earth's orbital coordinates
global yEarth;
global zEarth;
global ERad;    % Earth radius

dtor = .017453292;
az1r = azLeft * dtor;
az2r = azRight * dtor;
r = 1;      % scale factor

theta=[az1r:0.01:az2r]*2*pi;
phi=[0:0.01:pi/4];
[THETA,PHI]=meshgrid(theta,phi);
x=r .* (cos(THETA).*sin(PHI));
y=r .* (sin(THETA).*sin(PHI));
z=r .* cos(PHI);

object = surf(globe.UIAxes, xEarth+x, yEarth+y, zEarth+z, 'FaceAlpha', 0.5, 'FaceColor', color,  EdgeColor = 'none');

end

You can't draw this globe using UIAxes, and you can't use surf() on a UIFigure. How do I resolve this?

I have also looked at various other techniques, such as using geoplot. I have the Mapping Toolbox, but not Image Processing, so that is not an option.

Answer 1

[Kurt]

It appears you can't get there from here usining geo data. I found another solution using a mesh:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/2057714-plot-3d-dome-no-topo60c-file-available