How do they match: Cartographers and Photogrammetrists

  • Field Map Editor
  • Map Editor

  • Collect information about specific features of the Earth, using aerial photography and other digital remote sensing techniques.
  • Delineate aerial photographic detail, such as control points, hydrography, topography, and cultural features, using precision stereoplotting apparatus or drafting instruments.
  • Identify, scale, and orient geodetic points, elevations, and other planimetric or topographic features, applying standard mathematical formulas.
  • Travel over photographed areas to observe, identify, record, and verify all relevant features.

  • Survey land or bodies of water to measure or determine features.